Pith Number

pith:VZITMUM2

pith:2026:VZITMUM23S3AKODJGRVBODKZNY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Volition Elicitation: Operational Semantics for People and Their Machines

Ehud Shapiro

arxiv:2607.14138 v1 · 2026-07-10 · cs.PL · cs.AI · cs.DC · cs.HC · cs.MA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VZITMUM23S3AKODJGRVBODKZNY}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-07-17T00:20:53.660782Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ae5136519adcb6053869346a170d596e0837ab866099487b141b79e345a3ab22

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.14138 · arxiv_version: 2607.14138v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.14138 · pith_short_12: VZITMUM23S3A · pith_short_16: VZITMUM23S3AKODJ · pith_short_8: VZITMUM2

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/VZITMUM23S3AKODJGRVBODKZNY \
  | 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: ae5136519adcb6053869346a170d596e0837ab866099487b141b79e345a3ab22

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1a33bae7f0be1e91ac70b4597cdbd36db77d0ce41b88f2c859eee12891ddca80",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.DC",
      "cs.HC",
      "cs.MA"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.PL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-10T14:43:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f072568759924970b6edea2064e4ef9b013f69127d6b64fe269c3322f84c9358"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.14138",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}