Pith Number

pith:2R6TGRQU

pith:2017:2R6TGRQUDUFIFCF46WLFF4CBI5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Distributed compression through the lens of algorithmic information theory: a primer

Marius Zimand

arxiv:1706.08468 v1 · 2017-06-26 · cs.CC · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2R6TGRQUDUFIFCF46WLFF4CBI5}

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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	2026-05-18T00:41:42.525838Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d47d3346141d0a8288bcf59652f04147743a11e1242e7f922d945eb05d5aec84

Aliases

arxiv: 1706.08468 · arxiv_version: 1706.08468v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1706.08468 · pith_short_12: 2R6TGRQUDUFI · pith_short_16: 2R6TGRQUDUFIFCF4 · pith_short_8: 2R6TGRQU

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/2R6TGRQUDUFIFCF46WLFF4CBI5 \
  | 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: d47d3346141d0a8288bcf59652f04147743a11e1242e7f922d945eb05d5aec84

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0efeb9e83f29f0548ee360f916d45f4ca931d1e1fff69cbce02d5b6c26de27d0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-06-26T16:41:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e388211718d1939e9080adc15242c395053d5b8d345ec4cab7ae69c019781a47"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1706.08468",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}