Pith Number

pith:WDFKHND3

pith:2019:WDFKHND3JVZBX6UU7NHDGX3HSE

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Causality without potential outcomes and the dynamic approach

Daniel Commenges

arxiv:1905.01195 v1 · 2019-05-03 · stat.ME

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WDFKHND3JVZBX6UU7NHDGX3HSE}

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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	2026-05-17T23:47:06.545953Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b0caa3b47b4d721bfa94fb4e335f679112371cc15d1b34f449e37253738edddb

Aliases

arxiv: 1905.01195 · arxiv_version: 1905.01195v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1905.01195 · pith_short_12: WDFKHND3JVZB · pith_short_16: WDFKHND3JVZBX6UU · pith_short_8: WDFKHND3

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/WDFKHND3JVZBX6UU7NHDGX3HSE \
  | 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: b0caa3b47b4d721bfa94fb4e335f679112371cc15d1b34f449e37253738edddb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ceba361eaf73d803dea440ffd9fe3bdf5b66e235c4a7ee768ae08cfb655c1770",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2019-05-03T14:11:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "33a817744d9c75d28fa7e8bf6a0330cea8a8940a91c34670958cbe1488df8b10"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1905.01195",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}