Pith Number

pith:ACC6JU4U

pith:2018:ACC6JU4UFG7OYOXQWBAEOUFODH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

An Information-theoretic Framework for the Lossy Compression of Link Streams

Robin Lamarche-Perrin

arxiv:1807.06874 v1 · 2018-07-18 · cs.DS · cs.AI · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ACC6JU4UFG7OYOXQWBAEOUFODH}

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-18T00:10:25.488932Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0085e4d39429beec3af0b0404750ae19d33b24ce9dcfc8446c4c90df5f08ea28

Aliases

arxiv: 1807.06874 · arxiv_version: 1807.06874v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1807.06874 · pith_short_12: ACC6JU4UFG7O · pith_short_16: ACC6JU4UFG7OYOXQ · pith_short_8: ACC6JU4U

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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/ACC6JU4UFG7OYOXQWBAEOUFODH \
  | 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: 0085e4d39429beec3af0b0404750ae19d33b24ce9dcfc8446c4c90df5f08ea28

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dc53746b1d33792121c85bb29b8d33e1977d94eff3174e23fd6ead7d73229455",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2018-07-18T11:48:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "140408f9a49977a872d816225660a37b2eccfd31cc8525b21d43b65c203c72df"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1807.06874",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}