Pith Number

pith:ZJQLHR4D

pith:2026:ZJQLHR4D63GXLJYW3LEDBTTZ33

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Why Does the Future Branch? Identifiable Closure Tests for Stochastic Physical World Models

Yibin Dong

arxiv:2608.00591 v1 · 2026-08-01 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZJQLHR4D63GXLJYW3LEDBTTZ33}

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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	2026-08-04T00:37:49.971092Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ca60b3c783f6cd75a716dac830ce79dee5a50188852f9f2c2719e388db47cd2b

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.00591 · arxiv_version: 2608.00591v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.00591 · pith_short_12: ZJQLHR4D63GX · pith_short_16: ZJQLHR4D63GXLJYW · pith_short_8: ZJQLHR4D

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ZJQLHR4D63GXLJYW3LEDBTTZ33 \
  | 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: ca60b3c783f6cd75a716dac830ce79dee5a50188852f9f2c2719e388db47cd2b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "823d4f5c4fe2e81ce494745a4d2efbd66c62a05eeb9714bacd01581fb4943519",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-01T11:07:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "013f1cc612b73207dbf9a144c8adb6256d4713a934c021b59e195c6e591e85b9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.00591",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}