Pith Number

pith:YQKHRFTC

pith:2016:YQKHRFTCGJT5VO5Y4IAJH2SSME

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Stripping syntax from complexity: An information-theoretical perspective on complex systems

Omri Har-Shemesh, Peter M.A. Sloot, Rick Quax, Stefan Thurner

arxiv:1603.03552 v1 · 2016-03-11 · nlin.AO · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YQKHRFTCGJT5VO5Y4IAJH2SSME}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:19:15.361868Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c4147896623267dabbb8e20093ea52611fc7470cb38521e38e5cffed5fe863ac

Aliases

arxiv: 1603.03552 · arxiv_version: 1603.03552v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1603.03552 · pith_short_12: YQKHRFTCGJT5 · pith_short_16: YQKHRFTCGJT5VO5Y · pith_short_8: YQKHRFTC

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/YQKHRFTCGJT5VO5Y4IAJH2SSME \
  | 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: c4147896623267dabbb8e20093ea52611fc7470cb38521e38e5cffed5fe863ac

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7bb7bbd9030472ead8ef2cd3d2ede549ec5150ece13eac354c04432237108ddc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "nlin.AO",
    "submitted_at": "2016-03-11T07:43:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ab91a0f904a5df7f65db7ebd06857f225c23437cf8bcd89f08eb9674e3bcd76b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1603.03552",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}