Pith Number

pith:CMKQ2ATJ

pith:2017:CMKQ2ATJXGLREJVMTMYR7CIDXX

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Practical Data-Dependent Metric Compression with Provable Guarantees

Ilya Razenshteyn, Piotr Indyk, Tal Wagner

arxiv:1711.01520 v1 · 2017-11-05 · cs.DS

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CMKQ2ATJXGLREJVMTMYR7CIDXX}

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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	2026-05-18T00:31:17.565496Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

13150d0269b9971226ac9b311f8903bdf3d4ee221df711ab7de848a87881ee21

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.01520 · arxiv_version: 1711.01520v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.01520 · pith_short_12: CMKQ2ATJXGLR · pith_short_16: CMKQ2ATJXGLREJVM · pith_short_8: CMKQ2ATJ

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/CMKQ2ATJXGLREJVMTMYR7CIDXX \
  | 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: 13150d0269b9971226ac9b311f8903bdf3d4ee221df711ab7de848a87881ee21

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "04cd20fa7453856193befddf9a557dd2e335696c7f4fb9a489895d5eabb0e174",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-05T02:33:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c24faa6ee99a073335d8db8d56dcbf623a65907f0cd60e484b58f1ebe58983d7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.01520",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}