Pith Number

pith:ZR2MJMWZ

pith:2017:ZR2MJMWZG6QBJR2VJB4SRMRPSP

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Unique Information via Dependency Constraints

James P. Crutchfield, Jeffrey Emenheiser, Ryan G. James

arxiv:1709.06653 v3 · 2017-09-19 · cond-mat.stat-mech · cs.IT · cs.LG · math.IT · math.ST · stat.TH

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZR2MJMWZG6QBJR2VJB4SRMRPSP}

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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	2026-05-18T00:02:13.324461Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cc74c4b2d937a014c755487928b22f93fe4712943094d23a0ac794f043f07ec8

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.06653 · arxiv_version: 1709.06653v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.06653 · pith_short_12: ZR2MJMWZG6QB · pith_short_16: ZR2MJMWZG6QBJR2V · pith_short_8: ZR2MJMWZ

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/ZR2MJMWZG6QBJR2VJB4SRMRPSP \
  | 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: cc74c4b2d937a014c755487928b22f93fe4712943094d23a0ac794f043f07ec8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "df8ac5318eb5317c7afc0d77622464da0aa95273a166451d684a338175f8d8ac",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "cs.LG",
      "math.IT",
      "math.ST",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-19T21:36:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "edd70c7b8dd4df3033d22e42af0681e35b8321a181b0edff49e45729c26c852e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.06653",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}