Pith Number

pith:Z7NGVY6Z

pith:2025:Z7NGVY6ZZYWCZR7YLSUBYTGQBU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Emergence: from physics to biology, sociology, and computer science

Ross H. McKenzie

arxiv:2508.08548 v4 · 2025-08-12 · physics.hist-ph · cond-mat.stat-mech · q-bio.NC · quant-ph

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Z7NGVY6ZZYWCZR7YLSUBYTGQBU}

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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	2026-07-03T01:17:12.627367Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cfda6ae3d9ce2c2cc7f85ca81c4cd00d1fd8f3dc34b9157c400270262de3e385

Aliases

arxiv: 2508.08548 · arxiv_version: 2508.08548v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2508.08548 · pith_short_12: Z7NGVY6ZZYWC · pith_short_16: Z7NGVY6ZZYWCZR7Y · pith_short_8: Z7NGVY6Z

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/Z7NGVY6ZZYWCZR7YLSUBYTGQBU \
  | 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: cfda6ae3d9ce2c2cc7f85ca81c4cd00d1fd8f3dc34b9157c400270262de3e385

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6aa2e768fa6224b7de2638d63baa4cc2d9a401e4bb68beb677ae6a6e96638a29",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.stat-mech",
      "q-bio.NC",
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2025-08-12T01:24:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1d2c34d3ee0d2c9368a83e571cee15dbe18e16a2902fb5b9f796fce92f58fefc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2508.08548",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}