Pith Number

pith:QPLQGYEG

pith:2026:QPLQGYEGYXW4RG7XRC5BYUIV73

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Local network evolution rules drive shortest path multiplicity

Alexei Vazquez

arxiv:2605.25237 v1 · 2026-05-24 · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QPLQGYEGYXW4RG7XRC5BYUIV73}

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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	2026-05-26T02:04:24.576080Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

83d7036086c5edc89bf788ba1c5115fefb6da6ab323282912c461dc917d3c5ed

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.25237 · arxiv_version: 2605.25237v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.25237 · pith_short_12: QPLQGYEGYXW4 · pith_short_16: QPLQGYEGYXW4RG7X · pith_short_8: QPLQGYEG

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/QPLQGYEGYXW4RG7XRC5BYUIV73 \
  | 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: 83d7036086c5edc89bf788ba1c5115fefb6da6ab323282912c461dc917d3c5ed

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "76c1c25cf56e78ec52ad357906fff67a909e7ba89b6696bdad9ec89bec6226fb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-24T19:47:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "761f17edb18fff2136b40b3696f347d6d2f6969fc55f65ff89a95ead9dda697c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.25237",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}