Pith Number

pith:4I5SW6CQ

pith:2017:4I5SW6CQBF25USGJXWIC6TGUAE

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Small-space encoding LCE data structure with constant-time queries

Hideo Bannai, Masayuki Takeda, Shunsuke Inenaga, Takaaki Nishimoto, Yuka Tanimura

arxiv:1702.07458 v1 · 2017-02-24 · cs.DS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4I5SW6CQBF25USGJXWIC6TGUAE}

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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	2026-05-18T00:50:03.273503Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e23b2b78500975da48c9bd902f4cd4011c73fe650d2abe4b948389a991a8be68

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.07458 · arxiv_version: 1702.07458v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.07458 · pith_short_12: 4I5SW6CQBF25 · pith_short_16: 4I5SW6CQBF25USGJ · pith_short_8: 4I5SW6CQ

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/4I5SW6CQBF25USGJXWIC6TGUAE \
  | 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: e23b2b78500975da48c9bd902f4cd4011c73fe650d2abe4b948389a991a8be68

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5111db72de7061b00ef46931d287ae83a5b97eb26ec57b25e43bddcc46e33242",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-24T03:57:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1522a5a46050c2df99ce7225142e4cbd19ca56f870e6c27f2144bca0ed7a571b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.07458",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}