Pith Number

pith:M3CHV2GB

pith:2010:M3CHV2GBWKDCK6ZR5KFIK3W7OS

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Intrinsic Universality in Self-Assembly

Damien Woods, David Doty, Jack H. Lutz, Matthew J. Patitz, Scott M. Summers

arxiv:1001.0208 v2 · 2010-01-01 · cs.CC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{M3CHV2GBWKDCK6ZR5KFIK3W7OS}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T01:04:59.255415Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

66c47ae8c1b286257b31ea8a856edf748b8906f0b73a41723a163273e3279d55

Aliases

arxiv: 1001.0208 · arxiv_version: 1001.0208v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1001.0208 · pith_short_12: M3CHV2GBWKDC · pith_short_16: M3CHV2GBWKDCK6ZR · pith_short_8: M3CHV2GB

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/M3CHV2GBWKDCK6ZR5KFIK3W7OS \
  | 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: 66c47ae8c1b286257b31ea8a856edf748b8906f0b73a41723a163273e3279d55

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7b964110212c16ebdda24a1d3f98616798acf909d3ba59f3d3e019c559ba065a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CC",
    "submitted_at": "2010-01-01T15:39:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d584790abbf1592701b4d8856f608755e44ce77522ee0b7392d6d7e03d1b57e4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1001.0208",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}