Pith Number

pith:VWJTHCPA

pith:2017:VWJTHCPASM2ABSQWQRI6DLB7JC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Thermodynamic Binding Networks

Chris Thachuk, Damien Woods, David Doty, David Soloveichik, Trent A. Rogers

arxiv:1709.07922 v1 · 2017-09-22 · cs.ET

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VWJTHCPASM2ABSQWQRI6DLB7JC}

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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	2026-05-18T00:34:28.538746Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ad933389e0933400ca168451e1ac3f48a6e4f3767e3c324983a776dc145661c9

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.07922 · arxiv_version: 1709.07922v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.07922 · pith_short_12: VWJTHCPASM2A · pith_short_16: VWJTHCPASM2ABSQW · pith_short_8: VWJTHCPA

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/VWJTHCPASM2ABSQWQRI6DLB7JC \
  | 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: ad933389e0933400ca168451e1ac3f48a6e4f3767e3c324983a776dc145661c9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f5ce1ef536645e859643c5c9db7608c8fc1b835158616da187334be78133247d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.ET",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-22T19:34:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e24999e13479ad47f8b77a8dada05bf812b708e3e0dbdc5777faa1b6d38ab9b0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.07922",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}