Pith Number

pith:BYAD5KKI

pith:2013:BYAD5KKIQMAKXYAVGKAXMEJDDL

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How Many Queries Will Resolve Common Randomness?

Himanshu Tyagi, Prakash Narayan

arxiv:1305.1397 v1 · 2013-05-07 · cs.IT · cs.CR · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BYAD5KKIQMAKXYAVGKAXMEJDDL}

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4 Citations open

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	2026-05-18T03:26:21.854943Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0e003ea9488300abe01532817611231afbd78708b9b0c22fa990d242deaccfd2

Aliases

arxiv: 1305.1397 · arxiv_version: 1305.1397v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1305.1397 · pith_short_12: BYAD5KKIQMAK · pith_short_16: BYAD5KKIQMAKXYAV · pith_short_8: BYAD5KKI

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/BYAD5KKIQMAKXYAVGKAXMEJDDL \
  | 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: 0e003ea9488300abe01532817611231afbd78708b9b0c22fa990d242deaccfd2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "889de11f388da3a85a6c7ce2d17ab19ae19b3a0b2a6d41f2176cfd59ae14eb54",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2013-05-07T04:17:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4787da097d9bdce6f342896f5f37a82f13cfa4bd92fa6075f2a1ad493bb1de82"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1305.1397",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}