Pith Number

pith:B2MSCHHE

pith:2018:B2MSCHHENPNQJMCZF2HSRYBBMO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

An Equivalence Class for Orthogonal Vectors

Lijie Chen, Ryan Williams

arxiv:1811.12017 v1 · 2018-11-29 · cs.DS

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{B2MSCHHENPNQJMCZF2HSRYBBMO}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-17T23:59:34.692932Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0e99211ce46bdb04b0592e8f28e021638239cc2bd6a18fc8d30ac29e033e4668

Aliases

arxiv: 1811.12017 · arxiv_version: 1811.12017v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1811.12017 · pith_short_12: B2MSCHHENPNQ · pith_short_16: B2MSCHHENPNQJMCZ · pith_short_8: B2MSCHHE

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/B2MSCHHENPNQJMCZF2HSRYBBMO \
  | 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: 0e99211ce46bdb04b0592e8f28e021638239cc2bd6a18fc8d30ac29e033e4668

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "aba70edd244f9e3b6c5e347aa4618e1fe3089caf14888e3fc03cf2cb3504ec1b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2018-11-29T08:48:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "52b122582f96e66b3206517abe1ffd67134437bbbb4e0cdd28c94721aa4a3ad0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1811.12017",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}