Pith Number

pith:XM5DHXSG

pith:2026:XM5DHXSG5274IEYRWSSK6HXV7D

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Simple Hierarchical Causality Primer

Tim Gebbie

arxiv:2606.01979 v1 · 2026-06-01 · cs.MA · math.OC · q-fin.CP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XM5DHXSG5274IEYRWSSK6HXV7D}

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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	2026-06-02T02:05:02.630274Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bb3a33de46eebfc41311b4a4af1ef5f8ff4661191d2d4564a90e1e3ee7841ecc

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.01979 · arxiv_version: 2606.01979v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.01979 · pith_short_12: XM5DHXSG5274 · pith_short_16: XM5DHXSG5274IEYR · pith_short_8: XM5DHXSG

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/XM5DHXSG5274IEYRWSSK6HXV7D \
  | 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: bb3a33de46eebfc41311b4a4af1ef5f8ff4661191d2d4564a90e1e3ee7841ecc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4061c37fc70655c1feca59e9e65a14a95125f6ca60589cafa46c020e49c24c21",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.OC",
      "q-fin.CP"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.MA",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-01T09:41:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3e36e9df7845e7fa7861793bd88974a50f5ed773e6ae6c57cab96b0e5cb809a5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.01979",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}