Pith Number

pith:7H3FBAKV

pith:2026:7H3FBAKVJIP2ZLZJFIMU5XGZEC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A formal definition and meta-model for a machine theory of mind

Fabio Cuzzolin

arxiv:2606.03471 v1 · 2026-06-02 · cs.AI · cs.MA · q-bio.NC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7H3FBAKVJIP2ZLZJFIMU5XGZEC}

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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	2026-06-03T01:05:58.754609Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f9f65081554a1facaf292a194edcd92084f1d9249bc496f2722fa9bbce62b4cb

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.03471 · arxiv_version: 2606.03471v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.03471 · pith_short_12: 7H3FBAKVJIP2 · pith_short_16: 7H3FBAKVJIP2ZLZJ · pith_short_8: 7H3FBAKV

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/7H3FBAKVJIP2ZLZJFIMU5XGZEC \
  | 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: f9f65081554a1facaf292a194edcd92084f1d9249bc496f2722fa9bbce62b4cb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8cc493be293f1a6b6dc45b266af2e091218f0a670be7e49ae1037dd218184604",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.MA",
      "q-bio.NC"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-02T10:48:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ae94bf9ea959783b2742d3d33238f40cab422379ecc1aa3a43694842c6326d35"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.03471",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}