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pith:C44O4AMJ

pith:2012:C44O4AMJG3LKUE2JURGL5IYRGJ
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Bounds for the quantifier depth in finite-variable logics: Alternation hierarchy

Andreas Krebs, Christoph Berkholz, Oleg Verbitsky

arxiv:1212.2747 v4 · 2012-12-12 · cs.LO

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\pithnumber{C44O4AMJG3LKUE2JURGL5IYRGJ}

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Canonical hash

1738ee018936d6aa1349a44cbea311324fdb8de80e153d4bf0befae1bc8456de

Aliases

arxiv: 1212.2747 · arxiv_version: 1212.2747v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1212.2747 · pith_short_12: C44O4AMJG3LK · pith_short_16: C44O4AMJG3LKUE2J · pith_short_8: C44O4AMJ
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/C44O4AMJG3LKUE2JURGL5IYRGJ \
  | 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: 1738ee018936d6aa1349a44cbea311324fdb8de80e153d4bf0befae1bc8456de
Canonical record JSON
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LO",
    "submitted_at": "2012-12-12T09:43:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "13d4e109fe765f1b12f7b604199d995cda0077bff07a3692999af51bfab6a27c"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}