Pith Number

pith:WKPSUA3K

pith:2017:WKPSUA3KDULAC2WHYNEEYHECEZ

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What caused what? A quantitative account of actual causation using dynamical causal networks

Erik Hoel, Giulio Tononi, Larissa Albantakis, William Marshall

arxiv:1708.06716 v2 · 2017-08-22 · cs.AI · math.ST · stat.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WKPSUA3KDULAC2WHYNEEYHECEZ}

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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	2026-05-17T23:56:38.992328Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b29f2a036a1d16016ac7c3484c1c822649767d3807912b67c72992cb7121cecc

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.06716 · arxiv_version: 1708.06716v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.06716 · pith_short_12: WKPSUA3KDULA · pith_short_16: WKPSUA3KDULAC2WH · pith_short_8: WKPSUA3K

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/WKPSUA3KDULAC2WHYNEEYHECEZ \
  | 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: b29f2a036a1d16016ac7c3484c1c822649767d3807912b67c72992cb7121cecc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d69e097cef7da42e9a01d8b37969444dd63f36c0bdc5c73cc24b440ffa2193fc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.ST",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-22T16:51:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5e375ed8e67596318f81d6c07238d433badaecb01c95cf30d72e583b4b6eedca"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.06716",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}