Pith Number

pith:4FTV6SQU

pith:2018:4FTV6SQULQS4OVUGHLYMTI65CP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Pseudorandom Generators for Read-Once Branching Programs, in any Order

Michael A. Forbes, Zander Kelley

arxiv:1808.06265 v1 · 2018-08-19 · cs.CC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4FTV6SQULQS4OVUGHLYMTI65CP}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T00:07:45.526586Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e1675f4a145c25c756863af0c9a3dd13cd4f956546878712c456883a65d89778

Aliases

arxiv: 1808.06265 · arxiv_version: 1808.06265v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1808.06265 · pith_short_12: 4FTV6SQULQS4 · pith_short_16: 4FTV6SQULQS4OVUG · pith_short_8: 4FTV6SQU

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/4FTV6SQULQS4OVUGHLYMTI65CP \
  | 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: e1675f4a145c25c756863af0c9a3dd13cd4f956546878712c456883a65d89778

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2535c16fae3a65dc62e7a509a12ebd67b2ae6fee7f3ad897c53d3252fdecff79",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-08-19T22:17:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "71688beddfd9454d985e0ae5478686ac6af2b13b5d76bb1425a06b63ffe95483"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1808.06265",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}