Pith Number

pith:ZRTJSJWV

pith:2026:ZRTJSJWVUJ5HMRDNNSNR4MK7UG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Replicating Belief, Not Bits: Epistemic State Replication for Agentic Systems

Deying Yu, Jun He

arxiv:2607.09748 v1 · 2026-07-03 · cs.AI · cs.DC · cs.LO · cs.MA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZRTJSJWVUJ5HMRDNNSNR4MK7UG}

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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	2026-07-14T00:18:33.656497Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cc669926d5a27a76446d6c9b1e315fa1b40ca50771279fc4f29072c22ea01380

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.09748 · arxiv_version: 2607.09748v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.09748 · pith_short_12: ZRTJSJWVUJ5H · pith_short_16: ZRTJSJWVUJ5HMRDN · pith_short_8: ZRTJSJWV

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/ZRTJSJWVUJ5HMRDNNSNR4MK7UG \
  | 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: cc669926d5a27a76446d6c9b1e315fa1b40ca50771279fc4f29072c22ea01380

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b3d955695bffec0c3225d061fb586d819a4463cf32249c79b4fe63595306e5b5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC",
      "cs.LO",
      "cs.MA"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-03T19:59:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "18e85454406a47e757ef92484cabf5777357825ab1a196fb1e2e48d8370d4ce7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.09748",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}