Pith Number

pith:J26MZGGZ

pith:2010:J26MZGGZTUHRVYMWF2SQLKLXEM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Statistical Measure of Complexity

Hector Mancini, Ricardo Lopez-Ruiz, Xavier Calbet

arxiv:1009.1498 v1 · 2010-09-08 · nlin.AO · cs.IT · math.IT · physics.data-an

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{J26MZGGZTUHRVYMWF2SQLKLXEM}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T04:41:14.653978Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4ebccc98d99d0f1ae1962ea505a977232f1f820233ff02801f80af51e1716485

Aliases

arxiv: 1009.1498 · arxiv_version: 1009.1498v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1009.1498 · pith_short_12: J26MZGGZTUHR · pith_short_16: J26MZGGZTUHRVYMW · pith_short_8: J26MZGGZ

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/J26MZGGZTUHRVYMWF2SQLKLXEM \
  | 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: 4ebccc98d99d0f1ae1962ea505a977232f1f820233ff02801f80af51e1716485

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3999716ad294e651a86a7be308610e9bb51a2cc7e8953cbaadd679d568ce3a0e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT",
      "physics.data-an"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "nlin.AO",
    "submitted_at": "2010-09-08T10:34:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4443c9b9f89aaa73d3742a342cda252ec8e2e87ae2dd5f562d314ba39503adea"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1009.1498",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}