Pith Number

pith:4ZGZGD4X

pith:2018:4ZGZGD4XAMNNRRUJK4SJJTMIKV

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Branching Processes for QuickCheck Generators

Agust\'in Mista, Alejandro Russo, John Hughes

arxiv:1808.01520 v2 · 2018-08-04 · cs.SE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4ZGZGD4XAMNNRRUJK4SJJTMIKV}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T00:08:37.385030Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e64d930f97031ad8c689572494cd885567a61bd9acd6f7a0c8646e66ecef0f28

Aliases

arxiv: 1808.01520 · arxiv_version: 1808.01520v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1808.01520 · pith_short_12: 4ZGZGD4XAMNN · pith_short_16: 4ZGZGD4XAMNNRRUJ · pith_short_8: 4ZGZGD4X

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/4ZGZGD4XAMNNRRUJK4SJJTMIKV \
  | 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: e64d930f97031ad8c689572494cd885567a61bd9acd6f7a0c8646e66ecef0f28

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "46610a2bd6531a20247ab74b5c16ed2052466439f61f82c755571dadf8f22ffb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2018-08-04T19:03:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0949bf5863d6f4dd97e387c948b5f3a1bf61108f2b78df7175d5fc462d8ad3e7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1808.01520",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}