Pith Number

pith:XKAQ46RM

pith:2015:XKAQ46RM4FEVV77MWTSYLTDS4L

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Stochastic selection processes

Alex McAvoy

arxiv:1511.05390 v1 · 2015-11-17 · q-bio.PE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XKAQ46RM4FEVV77MWTSYLTDS4L}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T01:26:40.390404Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ba810e7a2ce1495affecb4e585cc72e2fadb345e4a69d609c45d49079cb2f5fd

Aliases

arxiv: 1511.05390 · arxiv_version: 1511.05390v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1511.05390 · pith_short_12: XKAQ46RM4FEV · pith_short_16: XKAQ46RM4FEVV77M · pith_short_8: XKAQ46RM

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/XKAQ46RM4FEVV77MWTSYLTDS4L \
  | 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: ba810e7a2ce1495affecb4e585cc72e2fadb345e4a69d609c45d49079cb2f5fd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "37600de2c6aa72f64bed28c37a1b41063a9e56791a4a79b75c2ef18734958ce4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.PE",
    "submitted_at": "2015-11-17T13:18:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a0ba4c9ccf15cdf02ff98aea431c158c003a880a3b46dc1df0e7f3577d2a5e29"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1511.05390",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}