Pith Number

pith:4OULHC52

pith:2013:4OULHC52UXAFC7HI4KHFCJPMGZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Representing Heuristic Knowledge in D-S Theory

John G. Hughes, Michael F. McTear, Weiru Liu

arxiv:1303.5416 v1 · 2013-03-13 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4OULHC52UXAFC7HI4KHFCJPMGZ}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T03:30:11.710421Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e3a8b38bbaa5c0517ce8e28e5125ec3667f74548af1e4610efa4597d2fa8ee83

Aliases

arxiv: 1303.5416 · arxiv_version: 1303.5416v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1303.5416 · pith_short_12: 4OULHC52UXAF · pith_short_16: 4OULHC52UXAFC7HI · pith_short_8: 4OULHC52

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/4OULHC52UXAFC7HI4KHFCJPMGZ \
  | 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: e3a8b38bbaa5c0517ce8e28e5125ec3667f74548af1e4610efa4597d2fa8ee83

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3511ffee950aaf94b83837e83ac328c3f3d3773288d722330accd8e1897a0d26",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2013-03-13T12:53:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "14775407d2022725b5d8edf6d492d35e7c53000475e3f2c3cdee2de6af4ed95b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1303.5416",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}