Pith Number

pith:XYLEFJPB

pith:2026:XYLEFJPBN37HIS4KHT5ZY57ROM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Why the Third Axis Is Freedom

Michael Timothy Bennett

arxiv:2608.05423 v1 · 2026-08-05 · cs.LG · cs.AI

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XYLEFJPBN37HIS4KHT5ZY57ROM}

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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	2026-08-07T00:47:50.434258Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

be1642a5e16efe744b8a3cfb9c77f17311b81cfa52553141ebe170c361fbe013

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.05423 · arxiv_version: 2608.05423v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.05423 · pith_short_12: XYLEFJPBN37H · pith_short_16: XYLEFJPBN37HIS4K · pith_short_8: XYLEFJPB

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/XYLEFJPBN37HIS4KHT5ZY57ROM \
  | 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: be1642a5e16efe744b8a3cfb9c77f17311b81cfa52553141ebe170c361fbe013

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "41e17c639b70f531385718b77743a5a693217946da5adbad4a5a0d13dcdfbca8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-05T21:34:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ff0fe6ca41b6f4eb622e053a9669efe1d1a241e3facb73973f688fbf78d8c1fa"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.05423",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}