Pith Number

pith:46M2I5LW

pith:2024:46M2I5LW2QU3LNASROLJS3OXI2

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A Generalized Trace Reconstruction Problem: Recovering a String of Probabilities

Gregory Valiant, Joey Rivkin, Paul Valiant

arxiv:2412.00674 v1 · 2024-12-01 · cs.DS · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{46M2I5LW2QU3LNASROLJS3OXI2}

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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.

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First computed	2026-07-05T09:42:45.140759Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e799a47576d429b5b4128b96996dd7469696a484309f2cae826a2b54b68fbab7

Aliases

arxiv: 2412.00674 · arxiv_version: 2412.00674v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2412.00674 · pith_short_12: 46M2I5LW2QU3 · pith_short_16: 46M2I5LW2QU3LNAS · pith_short_8: 46M2I5LW

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/46M2I5LW2QU3LNASROLJS3OXI2 \
  | 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: e799a47576d429b5b4128b96996dd7469696a484309f2cae826a2b54b68fbab7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "00aa5d23a756339e2d5bfd606c6c00cb2b32257c0c107429968f6aa9b4369e98",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2024-12-01T05:06:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "18e326813c6d46c6199180d9ff239e25677fdbbf4da1c088653e23c53a101eac"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2412.00674",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}