Pith Number

pith:VRKAZOIL

pith:2017:VRKAZOILHXGHR2O3CY3UDE4BX2

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Prediction and Generation of Binary Markov Processes: Can a Finite-State Fox Catch a Markov Mouse?

J. P. Crutchfield, J. R. Mahoney, J. Ruebeck, R. G. James

arxiv:1708.00113 v1 · 2017-08-01 · cond-mat.stat-mech · cs.CC · cs.IT · math.IT · nlin.CD

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VRKAZOILHXGHR2O3CY3UDE4BX2}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:23:34.539663Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ac540cb90b3dcc78e9db1637419381beae997b4cf90ddee28a7b701fc5389287

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.00113 · arxiv_version: 1708.00113v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.00113 · pith_short_12: VRKAZOILHXGH · pith_short_16: VRKAZOILHXGHR2O3 · pith_short_8: VRKAZOIL

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VRKAZOILHXGHR2O3CY3UDE4BX2 \
  | 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: ac540cb90b3dcc78e9db1637419381beae997b4cf90ddee28a7b701fc5389287

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0f5210d5deedc3593e1f2af63a2b66b9746afb74c833b1a036d9d9f2b1b8122f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CC",
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT",
      "nlin.CD"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-01T00:26:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3645c1e8ec51551399273178805f4f55368404960bf562492751fbc37e878304"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.00113",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}