Pith Number

pith:I2RDLUU5

pith:2018:I2RDLUU54KRHS5HD6URLYTFDSI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Information Flow in Finite Flocks

Joshua Brown, Lionel Barnett, Terry Bossomaier

arxiv:1809.03723 v1 · 2018-09-11 · cond-mat.stat-mech

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{I2RDLUU54KRHS5HD6URLYTFDSI}

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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	2026-05-18T00:06:00.018816Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

46a235d29de2a27974e3f522bc4ca3923399a0fa3f80a3273d9e2fa0d55bcc60

Aliases

arxiv: 1809.03723 · arxiv_version: 1809.03723v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1809.03723 · pith_short_12: I2RDLUU54KRH · pith_short_16: I2RDLUU54KRHS5HD · pith_short_8: I2RDLUU5

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/I2RDLUU54KRHS5HD6URLYTFDSI \
  | 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: 46a235d29de2a27974e3f522bc4ca3923399a0fa3f80a3273d9e2fa0d55bcc60

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b185f61bdf9d470d62540c0180851b08a1c1328b94575043519075ac3c0ea56b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "submitted_at": "2018-09-11T08:17:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "235eb15326cd0c0ecaf1571edcd1da4dc0b4c9d063592725fc0716f5ec24e280"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1809.03723",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}