Pith Number

pith:BMMGYHR2

pith:2014:BMMGYHR2KFWTOOKHXHIGNOKIL6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Pseudorandomness for concentration bounds and signed majorities

Daniel Kane, Parikshit Gopalan, Raghu Meka

arxiv:1411.4584 v1 · 2014-11-17 · cs.CC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BMMGYHR2KFWTOOKHXHIGNOKIL6}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T02:35:45.407380Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0b186c1e3a516d373947b9d066b9485fbbc865f9673ee6dbba222d43b50d7fe6

Aliases

arxiv: 1411.4584 · arxiv_version: 1411.4584v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1411.4584 · pith_short_12: BMMGYHR2KFWT · pith_short_16: BMMGYHR2KFWTOOKH · pith_short_8: BMMGYHR2

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/BMMGYHR2KFWTOOKHXHIGNOKIL6 \
  | 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: 0b186c1e3a516d373947b9d066b9485fbbc865f9673ee6dbba222d43b50d7fe6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a5f5d7f98e81ea328d97a22568ca7453623b0c3deccbf520cced10afb0b65087",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CC",
    "submitted_at": "2014-11-17T18:42:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e380ec4714ee786576c87979aa4a45c30b02974927a2f9350afb83d0e4ed11d2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1411.4584",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}