Pith Number

pith:ZCHNE3MQ

pith:2016:ZCHNE3MQGJ5SAF2C5R2YXXGJ7K

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An Information Physics Derivation of Equations of Geodesic Form from the Influence Network

James Lyons Walsh, Kevin H. Knuth

arxiv:1604.08112 v1 · 2016-04-25 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZCHNE3MQGJ5SAF2C5R2YXXGJ7K}

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4 Citations 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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:16:08.098229Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c88ed26d90327b201742ec758bdcc9faa32bafbcd837368a9a8a122ef76e5330

Aliases

arxiv: 1604.08112 · arxiv_version: 1604.08112v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1604.08112 · pith_short_12: ZCHNE3MQGJ5S · pith_short_16: ZCHNE3MQGJ5SAF2C · pith_short_8: ZCHNE3MQ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ZCHNE3MQGJ5SAF2C5R2YXXGJ7K \
  | 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: c88ed26d90327b201742ec758bdcc9faa32bafbcd837368a9a8a122ef76e5330

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8e443b6955f1a8318bf10285a71042a7af255693541220d86e89196f86890d26",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-04-25T21:03:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1c3036e41101aea6b42966ecb583fa3c9845aaa911a89a8e5f0a41f974a4df85"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1604.08112",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}