Pith Number

pith:WOYWE3HV

pith:1996:WOYWE3HVJDS66NPRZJ6KATJDOU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Spontaneous Origin of Topological Complexity in Self-Organizing Neural Networks

George Chapline

arxiv:adap-org/9610003 v1 · 1996-10-03 · adap-org · nlin.AO · q-bio

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WOYWE3HVJDS66NPRZJ6KATJDOU}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-04T15:07:59.879602Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b3b1626cf548e5ef35f1ca7ca04d237527a0f217ec907ea8aecbd2ecbb7134d9

Aliases

arxiv: adap-org/9610003 · arxiv_version: adap-org/9610003v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.adap-org/9610003 · pith_short_12: WOYWE3HVJDS6 · pith_short_16: WOYWE3HVJDS66NPR · pith_short_8: WOYWE3HV

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/WOYWE3HVJDS66NPRZJ6KATJDOU \
  | 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: b3b1626cf548e5ef35f1ca7ca04d237527a0f217ec907ea8aecbd2ecbb7134d9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "58b240e071f81cadd80c6d10713c15ce48d7ee4ef66e77666556150664c794fb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "nlin.AO",
      "q-bio"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "adap-org",
    "submitted_at": "1996-10-03T23:36:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "faaa54c74818ff37104ad574a7bb96b8b4d215a0f7668d297cc32001d12309f7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "adap-org/9610003",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}