Pith Number

pith:A2EY2X4I

pith:2015:A2EY2X4IBLS3J5CXJ62V7ETVRQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Assessing forensic evidence by computing belief functions

Ronald Meester, Timber Kerkvliet

arxiv:1512.01250 v2 · 2015-12-02 · math.PR · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{A2EY2X4IBLS3J5CXJ62V7ETVRQ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:51:37.542540Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

06898d5f880ae5b4f4574fb55f92758c00e402e29106b845bc4b33ad57c64115

Aliases

arxiv: 1512.01250 · arxiv_version: 1512.01250v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1512.01250 · pith_short_12: A2EY2X4IBLS3 · pith_short_16: A2EY2X4IBLS3J5CX · pith_short_8: A2EY2X4I

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/A2EY2X4IBLS3J5CXJ62V7ETVRQ \
  | 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: 06898d5f880ae5b4f4574fb55f92758c00e402e29106b845bc4b33ad57c64115

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8da682d9b6796904a0491a6fae3a0e76a052d6c3a86b2e18075e7618f18d9bb2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2015-12-02T13:37:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "74e5caf303f768a2407097098321c9652cfe4b6c9743afa583942a0df6a00cdb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1512.01250",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}