Pith Number

pith:Y7HTEQDR

pith:2025:Y7HTEQDRMUZOS3ELAMPWP4COJ2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Machine Mirages: Defining the Undefined

Hamidou Tembine

arxiv:2506.13990 v1 · 2025-06-03 · cs.AI

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Y7HTEQDRMUZOS3ELAMPWP4COJ2}

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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	2026-07-05T11:22:46.880845Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c7cf3240716532e96c8b031f67f04e4eb218afbd6e80fb4bbc0bccd8f8a9df2a

Aliases

arxiv: 2506.13990 · arxiv_version: 2506.13990v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.13990 · pith_short_12: Y7HTEQDRMUZO · pith_short_16: Y7HTEQDRMUZOS3EL · pith_short_8: Y7HTEQDR

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/Y7HTEQDRMUZOS3ELAMPWP4COJ2 \
  | 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: c7cf3240716532e96c8b031f67f04e4eb218afbd6e80fb4bbc0bccd8f8a9df2a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "566bddf986f316401ff55fcbba845199ee8ed3512f4bf54220df8a7ad3189b44",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2025-06-03T11:45:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c0408e88efee6a788f545e826765f15916fac47602945e3b3436eb6652d65f19"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2506.13990",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}