Pith Number

pith:VLEZMVFQ

pith:2026:VLEZMVFQQHAWSNJHRE2COOFPSM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Hardness as an Information Constraint: A Unifying Meta-Complexity Assumption

Hunter Monroe

arxiv:2606.04257 v1 · 2026-06-02 · cs.CC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VLEZMVFQQHAWSNJHRE2COOFPSM}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-06-04T01:09:00.648556Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aac99654b081c169352789342738af9338748fbd05901ea7c09d5cf666cb2211

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.04257 · arxiv_version: 2606.04257v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.04257 · pith_short_12: VLEZMVFQQHAW · pith_short_16: VLEZMVFQQHAWSNJH · pith_short_8: VLEZMVFQ

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/VLEZMVFQQHAWSNJHRE2COOFPSM \
  | 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: aac99654b081c169352789342738af9338748fbd05901ea7c09d5cf666cb2211

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "679166f1dbbc93e2c957cc2ec701a6e0f6f666431d23d12caf4e7a010f5dd8f8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CC",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-02T22:18:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4b587ceebc52572b78a17684eaf0f5ce46572127fcee60a780958bcd1161867c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.04257",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}