Pith Number

pith:ZEOZOGNK

pith:2026:ZEOZOGNKXFLZSQL2PPD2RTPGZC

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The Simplicity Paradox: Why Evolution Does Not Produce Universally Complex Agents

Teddy Lazebnik

arxiv:2606.19136 v1 · 2026-06-17 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZEOZOGNKXFLZSQL2PPD2RTPGZC}

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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	2026-06-19T16:11:57.520879Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c91d9719aab95799417a7bc7a8cde6c880ee256c3a699d3e8036ff7052d5339e

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.19136 · arxiv_version: 2606.19136v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.19136 · pith_short_12: ZEOZOGNKXFLZ · pith_short_16: ZEOZOGNKXFLZSQL2 · pith_short_8: ZEOZOGNK

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/ZEOZOGNKXFLZSQL2PPD2RTPGZC \
  | 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: c91d9719aab95799417a7bc7a8cde6c880ee256c3a699d3e8036ff7052d5339e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2a9e94a8dc0e0af480fff6a4509296b80f7a28e8903b0074bf671c936758964d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-17T14:45:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4faf408ab0d02050d03aa8cf4adc214effb68d73a60667ac4d40aebbbe03c90a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.19136",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}