Pith Number

pith:7SS4SXSG

pith:2018:7SS4SXSGUVPQUHMC43JC2XMRSD

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Deterministic oblivious distribution (and tight compaction) in linear time

Enoch Peserico

arxiv:1807.06719 v1 · 2018-07-18 · cs.DS · cs.CR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7SS4SXSGUVPQUHMC43JC2XMRSD}

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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	2026-05-18T00:10:26.034567Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fca5c95e46a55f0a1d82e6d22d5d9190fb5ae5a6aca940a463f7cb4a1c3f01e8

Aliases

arxiv: 1807.06719 · arxiv_version: 1807.06719v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1807.06719 · pith_short_12: 7SS4SXSGUVPQ · pith_short_16: 7SS4SXSGUVPQUHMC · pith_short_8: 7SS4SXSG

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/7SS4SXSGUVPQUHMC43JC2XMRSD \
  | 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: fca5c95e46a55f0a1d82e6d22d5d9190fb5ae5a6aca940a463f7cb4a1c3f01e8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "84045aa20762f44d985875b456af44ff965487a61ef21fa3e1d6e2974b305787",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2018-07-18T00:40:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "af6de82b93796daf8a15fbfd9b58a2638066b9eb8e5b925e20dff5f1bc5a530b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1807.06719",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}