Pith Number

pith:VGIYAOSO

pith:2017:VGIYAOSO2KUWP6KRDCVCWZPPGP

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Second law for an autonomous information machine connected with multiple baths

Shubhashis Rana

arxiv:1704.08639 v3 · 2017-04-27 · cond-mat.stat-mech

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VGIYAOSO2KUWP6KRDCVCWZPPGP}

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5 Replications open

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:12:19.648879Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a991803a4ed2a967f95118aa2b65ef33cf4887f967c6b80339a53b8cc6f43d4c

Aliases

arxiv: 1704.08639 · arxiv_version: 1704.08639v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1704.08639 · pith_short_12: VGIYAOSO2KUW · pith_short_16: VGIYAOSO2KUWP6KR · pith_short_8: VGIYAOSO

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VGIYAOSO2KUWP6KRDCVCWZPPGP \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: a991803a4ed2a967f95118aa2b65ef33cf4887f967c6b80339a53b8cc6f43d4c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b853b24466e58b4757ac94a0ef2cfc0aec34c33bb297d3308437c16f32c2d5b0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "submitted_at": "2017-04-27T16:15:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d448bae6b55e7f61b26d6719c3ba57e897189edf875894fb4ec6376d2c435afa"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1704.08639",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}