Pith Number

pith:XLSHPH2T

pith:2014:XLSHPH2T2S4TZV665ZHS3WBUG7

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Understanding and Designing Complex Systems: Response to "A framework for optimal high-level descriptions in science and engineering---preliminary report"

Dowman P. Varn, James P. Crutchfield, Ryan G. James, Sarah Marzen

arxiv:1412.8520 v1 · 2014-12-30 · cond-mat.stat-mech · cs.AI · cs.CE · cs.IT · math.IT · nlin.CD

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XLSHPH2T2S4TZV665ZHS3WBUG7}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:30:17.237183Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bae4779f53d4b93cd7deee4f2dd83437d2c91567cc83f1ab229bf5efb0586708

Aliases

arxiv: 1412.8520 · arxiv_version: 1412.8520v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1412.8520 · pith_short_12: XLSHPH2T2S4T · pith_short_16: XLSHPH2T2S4TZV66 · pith_short_8: XLSHPH2T

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/XLSHPH2T2S4TZV665ZHS3WBUG7 \
  | 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: bae4779f53d4b93cd7deee4f2dd83437d2c91567cc83f1ab229bf5efb0586708

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "062cfe35e2315b9bcf43bacf1352dea0b1ac86003ef4afb3c481f52e05bae14d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.CE",
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT",
      "nlin.CD"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "submitted_at": "2014-12-30T01:11:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7167a0abd65f58bbabc74b05b5797c2aebe1f32e20804a0009b376fb4567c2bf"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1412.8520",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}