Pith Number

pith:AFHLOMEK

pith:2026:AFHLOMEKVZNEFQ4ZPX2VW74MA7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Encirclement Guaranteed Finite-Time Capture against Unknown Evader Strategies

Ashish R. Hota, Dinesh Patra, Prajakta Surve, Shaunak D. Bopardikar

arxiv:2603.15278 v2 · 2026-03-16 · eess.SY · cs.RO · cs.SY

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AFHLOMEKVZNEFQ4ZPX2VW74MA7}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-20T00:05:43.401698Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

014eb7308aae5a42c3997df55b7f8c07fc842e48e559a5ebfc98ce34df217824

Aliases

arxiv: 2603.15278 · arxiv_version: 2603.15278v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2603.15278 · pith_short_12: AFHLOMEKVZNE · pith_short_16: AFHLOMEKVZNEFQ4Z · pith_short_8: AFHLOMEK

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/AFHLOMEKVZNEFQ4ZPX2VW74MA7 \
  | 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: 014eb7308aae5a42c3997df55b7f8c07fc842e48e559a5ebfc98ce34df217824

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2a62626930af10070131306ca468d52ba0604a173fcb79c42f152b11fb93fe10",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.RO",
      "cs.SY"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "eess.SY",
    "submitted_at": "2026-03-16T13:41:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "83043c8f6524ab66c0a6ebf811bc6011ad4060f0afb393609c4ecbb90ae4d4b7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2603.15278",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}