Pith Number

pith:4FICGZIM

pith:2013:4FICGZIMIDLRYHV6AOMCMRZBJZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Monte-Carlo Algorithm for Dempster-Shafer Belief

Nic Wilson

arxiv:1303.5757 v1 · 2013-03-20 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4FICGZIMIDLRYHV6AOMCMRZBJZ}

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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	2026-05-18T03:30:01.331554Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e15023650c40d71c1ebe03982647214e743a5654d5b167623e2c2ab67e45919a

Aliases

arxiv: 1303.5757 · arxiv_version: 1303.5757v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1303.5757 · pith_short_12: 4FICGZIMIDLR · pith_short_16: 4FICGZIMIDLRYHV6 · pith_short_8: 4FICGZIM

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/4FICGZIMIDLRYHV6AOMCMRZBJZ \
  | 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: e15023650c40d71c1ebe03982647214e743a5654d5b167623e2c2ab67e45919a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "eccd089df7d68bf8f25193d524c985732cd120535d911ea0a40b39d98921d565",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2013-03-20T15:33:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a6f725b2d832d37f5ee7e42580739d85118bb24217b15762b546158dae12e96d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1303.5757",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}