Pith Number

pith:4BOURQK7

pith:2010:4BOURQK7EOO4NOXJLPUD7WPWQ6

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The Complexity of Causality and Responsibility for Query Answers and non-Answers

Alexandra Meliou, Dan Suciu, Katherine F. Moore, Wolfgang Gatterbauer

arxiv:1009.2021 v2 · 2010-09-10 · cs.DB · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4BOURQK7EOO4NOXJLPUD7WPWQ6}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T04:12:00.761115Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e05d48c15f239dc6bae95be83fd9f6879ddd94326d0724684c11cef2303b3439

Aliases

arxiv: 1009.2021 · arxiv_version: 1009.2021v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1009.2021 · pith_short_12: 4BOURQK7EOO4 · pith_short_16: 4BOURQK7EOO4NOXJ · pith_short_8: 4BOURQK7

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4BOURQK7EOO4NOXJLPUD7WPWQ6 \
  | 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: e05d48c15f239dc6bae95be83fd9f6879ddd94326d0724684c11cef2303b3439

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "80c549989c88438b43b80c7a7a6a5a0c7a78d92fde66d1f944226205ee6c185f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DB",
    "submitted_at": "2010-09-10T14:35:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d20a2d6e0b19f4007ef08bd87919b015d6290bf6fd78eef70209e2e98286788e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1009.2021",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}