Pith Number

pith:6LYC3QLV

pith:2013:6LYC3QLVOEGA2WU55XBBNHW5CI

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Approximate String Matching using a Bidirectional Index

Dekel Tsur, Gregory Kucherov, Kamil Salikhov

arxiv:1310.1440 v3 · 2013-10-05 · cs.DS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6LYC3QLVOEGA2WU55XBBNHW5CI}

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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	2026-05-18T01:33:57.163306Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f2f02dc175710c0d5a9dedc2169edd123fd43aadb1391cbe6687370c812923a9

Aliases

arxiv: 1310.1440 · arxiv_version: 1310.1440v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1310.1440 · pith_short_12: 6LYC3QLVOEGA · pith_short_16: 6LYC3QLVOEGA2WU5 · pith_short_8: 6LYC3QLV

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/6LYC3QLVOEGA2WU55XBBNHW5CI \
  | 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: f2f02dc175710c0d5a9dedc2169edd123fd43aadb1391cbe6687370c812923a9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cc8e4513bd5afc1fe5bc333642df77a04ae89ae7907af61f986de48a2d7f19bf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2013-10-05T04:24:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ee9ac6611e2a81251e74d317fcd176da5027049ce04bc81a2fe7aea9e7860cd0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1310.1440",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}