Pith Number

pith:ZNJ2REGN

pith:2015:ZNJ2REGN56IKM4JKE6DI6HOTH5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Neurons as an Information-theoretic Engine

Hideaki Shimazaki

arxiv:1512.07855 v2 · 2015-12-24 · q-bio.NC · physics.bio-ph · physics.data-an

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZNJ2REGN56IKM4JKE6DI6HOTH5}

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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	2026-05-18T00:27:10.205163Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cb53a890cdef90a6712a27868f1dd33f6ce53eb5d61bc6aa63a4f2ecf7de48c2

Aliases

arxiv: 1512.07855 · arxiv_version: 1512.07855v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1512.07855 · pith_short_12: ZNJ2REGN56IK · pith_short_16: ZNJ2REGN56IKM4JK · pith_short_8: ZNJ2REGN

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/ZNJ2REGN56IKM4JKE6DI6HOTH5 \
  | 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: cb53a890cdef90a6712a27868f1dd33f6ce53eb5d61bc6aa63a4f2ecf7de48c2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3c83500a95503f061347e12ef124eb986a59f1111c7a9a49ec42258f3d94d2aa",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.bio-ph",
      "physics.data-an"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.NC",
    "submitted_at": "2015-12-24T16:40:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6336f053e9800f44d1a2ea7921238fdd13b0143d65c755c11eb48240620cdd43"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1512.07855",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}