Pith Number

pith:2LU4EVCR

pith:2018:2LU4EVCRD7MRIZIMZ7ASFO7B4B

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Synchronization Strings: List Decoding for Insertions and Deletions

Amirbehshad Shahrasbi, Bernhard Haeupler, Madhu Sudan

arxiv:1802.08663 v1 · 2018-02-23 · cs.IT · cs.DS · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2LU4EVCRD7MRIZIMZ7ASFO7B4B}

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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	2026-05-18T00:22:40.873341Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d2e9c254511fd914650ccfc122bbe1e05cb7b32741e47446837206c21139d08b

Aliases

arxiv: 1802.08663 · arxiv_version: 1802.08663v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1802.08663 · pith_short_12: 2LU4EVCRD7MR · pith_short_16: 2LU4EVCRD7MRIZIM · pith_short_8: 2LU4EVCR

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/2LU4EVCRD7MRIZIMZ7ASFO7B4B \
  | 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: d2e9c254511fd914650ccfc122bbe1e05cb7b32741e47446837206c21139d08b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b62d32fa47e82f642f8cc73ec779078518719eafbe85278752f32d1082e7509e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2018-02-23T18:09:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "31f4259b25414f0c3d34f1ff8856fb65553060967d4690be2673580ac0b91fc2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1802.08663",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}