Pith Number

pith:DLXH3QNE

pith:1997:DLXH3QNE2R4XAP77BSGKLG4J3I

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Defining Relative Likelihood in Partially-Ordered Preferential Structures

J. Y. Halpern

arxiv:cs/9707103 v1 · 1997-07-01 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DLXH3QNE2R4XAP77BSGKLG4J3I}

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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	2026-05-18T01:06:48.869571Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1aee7dc1a4d479703fff0c8ca59b89da33eb174fec2c7d7983d10d0bfd8fee01

Aliases

arxiv: cs/9707103 · arxiv_version: cs/9707103v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cs/9707103 · pith_short_12: DLXH3QNE2R4X · pith_short_16: DLXH3QNE2R4XAP77 · pith_short_8: DLXH3QNE

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/DLXH3QNE2R4XAP77BSGKLG4J3I \
  | 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: 1aee7dc1a4d479703fff0c8ca59b89da33eb174fec2c7d7983d10d0bfd8fee01

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "38990e4772d763048899319c6cd89dfe97cd472e5f59554b2cb1522c40562756",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "1997-07-01T00:00:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4bd1c31728c1ea3d7919fb7fce956b33c8feb6da0a89a6a9fae5828ff442c9f6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "cs/9707103",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}