Pith Number

pith:XBDCRKE7

pith:2015:XBDCRKE7O5GOWV5VRLBZEHTN3R

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Maxwell's demon and the management of ignorance in stochastic thermodynamics

Ian J. Ford

arxiv:1510.03222 v3 · 2015-10-12 · cond-mat.stat-mech

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XBDCRKE7O5GOWV5VRLBZEHTN3R}

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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	2026-05-18T01:08:20.809008Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b84628a89f774ceb57b58ac3921e6ddc79e8cd9b8fbff581a373cbb76edd6e50

Aliases

arxiv: 1510.03222 · arxiv_version: 1510.03222v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1510.03222 · pith_short_12: XBDCRKE7O5GO · pith_short_16: XBDCRKE7O5GOWV5V · pith_short_8: XBDCRKE7

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/XBDCRKE7O5GOWV5VRLBZEHTN3R \
  | 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: b84628a89f774ceb57b58ac3921e6ddc79e8cd9b8fbff581a373cbb76edd6e50

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f4c55c2d18f0ed2ca38dfe48ffe1b7fe1c5a3391ed7eb44781887a870cc9a962",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "submitted_at": "2015-10-12T10:59:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "10612deab050019fb571766596c34ff97e12065c618fa690d70ebd0fadc69cc6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1510.03222",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}