Pith Number

pith:4RYCGJP3

pith:2017:4RYCGJP3P4CCQWBUWA3L22MQN5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Path Planning with Divergence-Based Distance Functions

Craig Gotsman, Kai Hormann, Renjie Chen

arxiv:1708.02845 v1 · 2017-08-09 · cs.RO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4RYCGJP3P4CCQWBUWA3L22MQN5}

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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	2026-05-18T00:38:19.362719Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e4702325fb7f04285834b036bd69906f429c67be7d2ad7eafac93772ec5e1a9a

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.02845 · arxiv_version: 1708.02845v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.02845 · pith_short_12: 4RYCGJP3P4CC · pith_short_16: 4RYCGJP3P4CCQWBU · pith_short_8: 4RYCGJP3

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/4RYCGJP3P4CCQWBUWA3L22MQN5 \
  | 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: e4702325fb7f04285834b036bd69906f429c67be7d2ad7eafac93772ec5e1a9a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4e4d7e98cfcd143bafd130c293fc91226350844600527ba4c82bd893af8bd420",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.RO",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-09T13:57:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "41dfe47586c1f5c8221bec76d7d0a65f83bd4ade5eb51e25ab137547e27af1f9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.02845",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}