Pith Number

pith:BUFAHZEK

pith:2013:BUFAHZEK3RHJHTTSJ6FSN4UZPR

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A Logical Interpretation of Dempster-Shafer Theory, with Application to Visual Recognition

Gregory M. Provan

arxiv:1304.1523 v1 · 2013-03-27 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BUFAHZEK3RHJHTTSJ6FSN4UZPR}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T03:28:55.523416Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0d0a03e48adc4e93ce724f8b26f2997c65ced197b212da268b3cf870776fc906

Aliases

arxiv: 1304.1523 · arxiv_version: 1304.1523v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1304.1523 · pith_short_12: BUFAHZEK3RHJ · pith_short_16: BUFAHZEK3RHJHTTS · pith_short_8: BUFAHZEK

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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/BUFAHZEK3RHJHTTSJ6FSN4UZPR \
  | 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: 0d0a03e48adc4e93ce724f8b26f2997c65ced197b212da268b3cf870776fc906

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "39cb6d1c2e5dec0f2b8ee130f1b944c3a094a489dc2bdab28f257a64a1272f5e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2013-03-27T19:39:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "001d5487342d06d979fe426adb936b61d957d283f1c4bb3442e540a61bb4a308"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1304.1523",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}