Pith Number

pith:T2IAZPZ2

pith:2026:T2IAZPZ2GQPL6YPBDRXFUCT45O

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Emergent Culture in Minimal LLM Systems

Sabine Hauert, Simon Jones

arxiv:2606.30668 v1 · 2026-06-21 · cs.NE · cs.AI · cs.CL · cs.MA · nlin.AO · q-bio.PE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{T2IAZPZ2GQPL6YPBDRXFUCT45O}

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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	2026-07-01T00:17:13.047241Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9e900cbf3a341ebf61e11c6e5a0a7ceb832d3c52c79a8de09d9beb934b7824f9

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.30668 · arxiv_version: 2606.30668v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.30668 · pith_short_12: T2IAZPZ2GQPL · pith_short_16: T2IAZPZ2GQPL6YPB · pith_short_8: T2IAZPZ2

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/T2IAZPZ2GQPL6YPBDRXFUCT45O \
  | 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: 9e900cbf3a341ebf61e11c6e5a0a7ceb832d3c52c79a8de09d9beb934b7824f9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a6bcc7ab308462612395e4afae2b932293080178e1cfaa4ea2a22265879e57d7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.CL",
      "cs.MA",
      "nlin.AO",
      "q-bio.PE"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-21T15:56:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e9dd04779f94336c97b01d6527af4f72b866e80b1cd4b50f89e29e4ddad7a97f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.30668",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}