Pith Number

pith:VUT2LVK6

pith:2018:VUT2LVK67LYJYZ2HSUAIMU7WVM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Thermodynamically Favorable Computation via Tile Self-assembly

Cameron Chalk, Jacob Hendricks, Matthew J. Patitz, Michael Sharp

arxiv:1802.02686 v1 · 2018-02-08 · cs.ET

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VUT2LVK67LYJYZ2HSUAIMU7WVM}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T00:24:03.346001Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ad27a5d55efaf09c674795008653f6ab2ad6dcf38a74df3a792229ad7a07a27f

Aliases

arxiv: 1802.02686 · arxiv_version: 1802.02686v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1802.02686 · pith_short_12: VUT2LVK67LYJ · pith_short_16: VUT2LVK67LYJYZ2H · pith_short_8: VUT2LVK6

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/VUT2LVK67LYJYZ2HSUAIMU7WVM \
  | 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: ad27a5d55efaf09c674795008653f6ab2ad6dcf38a74df3a792229ad7a07a27f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2156609c8bebe61afc63de24381d865e166f4a8eb5b5a1d714b5c65a29cf2cce",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.ET",
    "submitted_at": "2018-02-08T01:31:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "43b600c8a668c085a41e7b16af680cab6e71c7a056d25d8656f410ecc6dd17d3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1802.02686",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}