Pith Number

pith:YNJPGJQF

pith:2026:YNJPGJQFHNI4LFYDLOINI2UV6B

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Under What Conditions Can a Machine Become Genuinely Creative?

Yong Zeng

arxiv:2606.13196 v1 · 2026-06-11 · cs.AI · cs.CY

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YNJPGJQFHNI4LFYDLOINI2UV6B}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-06-12T01:09:46.306618Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c352f326053b51c597035b90d46a95f07eebf63478ea87b450eb44c7e2f89bd6

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.13196 · arxiv_version: 2606.13196v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.13196 · pith_short_12: YNJPGJQFHNI4 · pith_short_16: YNJPGJQFHNI4LFYD · pith_short_8: YNJPGJQF

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/YNJPGJQFHNI4LFYDLOINI2UV6B \
  | 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: c352f326053b51c597035b90d46a95f07eebf63478ea87b450eb44c7e2f89bd6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "41e1150bcccd58b1529236bdc2c4615f5098689a14d2b63e5bcf6f28f836d19d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-11T11:02:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f3b76cb04fca8384ec935cbc8acc0362643053083b4721a24b3481ece8bbe6b2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.13196",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}