Pith Number

pith:B5E37ETR

pith:2015:B5E37ETRLHEPXMEA7G3CHAVWPM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Information complexity is computable

Jon Schneider, Mark Braverman

arxiv:1502.02971 v1 · 2015-02-10 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{B5E37ETRLHEPXMEA7G3CHAVWPM}

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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	2026-05-18T02:27:30.144166Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0f49bf927159c8fbb080f9b62382b67b28814f175081ed354593f4a8e475e8a3

Aliases

arxiv: 1502.02971 · arxiv_version: 1502.02971v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1502.02971 · pith_short_12: B5E37ETRLHEP · pith_short_16: B5E37ETRLHEPXMEA · pith_short_8: B5E37ETR

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/B5E37ETRLHEPXMEA7G3CHAVWPM \
  | 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: 0f49bf927159c8fbb080f9b62382b67b28814f175081ed354593f4a8e475e8a3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "346d420121c90cd8627bd6442d0408a5a84eca80eea086563b6a7c05365494ba",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2015-02-10T16:28:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "423dd89c106eaf46b661791238ae19c5975101ac75c85df1cda6897bfb013c57"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1502.02971",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}