Pith Number

pith:ZG4VZ3JY

pith:2025:ZG4VZ3JY2NWDYEOCQBFEQVBPED

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Ephemeral Shadow: Hyperreal Beings in Stimulative Performance

Dong Zhang, Jingyi Yu, Yanjun Zhou

arxiv:2504.14536 v1 · 2025-04-20 · cs.HC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZG4VZ3JY2NWDYEOCQBFEQVBPED}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-05T10:51:45.057070Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c9b95ced38d36c3c11c2804a48542f20e1995adcc2be860981c5aa901d30ad00

Aliases

arxiv: 2504.14536 · arxiv_version: 2504.14536v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2504.14536 · pith_short_12: ZG4VZ3JY2NWD · pith_short_16: ZG4VZ3JY2NWDYEOC · pith_short_8: ZG4VZ3JY

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/ZG4VZ3JY2NWDYEOCQBFEQVBPED \
  | 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: c9b95ced38d36c3c11c2804a48542f20e1995adcc2be860981c5aa901d30ad00

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "97b409351b7bb8fdb7a3ec5d18ad9d494c36c55be7fa1e876bb198976ad13641",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.HC",
    "submitted_at": "2025-04-20T08:22:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2b5ba695576cf713d1d831335553ae5d958ac660d1e3439ababfec765e760337"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2504.14536",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}