Pith Number

pith:7VL7WVXH

pith:2017:7VL7WVXHEVNK5V67BVB5D6YPFK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Trace reconstruction with varying deletion probabilities

Lisa Hartung, Nina Holden, Yuval Peres

arxiv:1708.02216 v1 · 2017-08-07 · math.PR · cs.IT · math.IT · math.ST · stat.TH

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7VL7WVXHEVNK5V67BVB5D6YPFK}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:38:31.760551Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fd57fb56e7255aaed7df0d43d1fb0f2aa6e18fd8cb619d72ecd39e8b5177a584

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.02216 · arxiv_version: 1708.02216v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.02216 · pith_short_12: 7VL7WVXHEVNK · pith_short_16: 7VL7WVXHEVNK5V67 · pith_short_8: 7VL7WVXH

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/7VL7WVXHEVNK5V67BVB5D6YPFK \
  | 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: fd57fb56e7255aaed7df0d43d1fb0f2aa6e18fd8cb619d72ecd39e8b5177a584

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ad8d750a940ac5ab5791faf105e2b479f8a5e2ba948893c7e9592ea4c6e223ca",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT",
      "math.ST",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-07T17:35:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bce17b6ee78c1be5302e0cc0bcfba0ae689f1b8c5ab4fd9dacba0cdeaa246c82"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.02216",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}