Pith Number

pith:F6RTP4PQ

pith:2009:F6RTP4PQKTAC65G4EWP3WBXS4D

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Self-Assembly of a Statistically Self-Similar Fractal

Aaron Sterling

arxiv:0904.1630 v3 · 2009-04-10 · cs.CC · cs.DS · cs.OH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{F6RTP4PQKTAC65G4EWP3WBXS4D}

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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	2026-05-18T04:17:15.570281Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2fa337f1f054c02f74dc259fbb06f2e0ce57dc2a2e3fd5e7c12058fbd053e48a

Aliases

arxiv: 0904.1630 · arxiv_version: 0904.1630v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0904.1630 · pith_short_12: F6RTP4PQKTAC · pith_short_16: F6RTP4PQKTAC65G4 · pith_short_8: F6RTP4PQ

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/F6RTP4PQKTAC65G4EWP3WBXS4D \
  | 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: 2fa337f1f054c02f74dc259fbb06f2e0ce57dc2a2e3fd5e7c12058fbd053e48a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d4cbe5e689fcfec1ade624166931ce47330a8bfc3bf7a7b4836107ac627c0169",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS",
      "cs.OH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CC",
    "submitted_at": "2009-04-10T03:19:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "22f293b766d69ea955f88f387f6947d60c467ea6151403bbefaac3c486389f32"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0904.1630",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}