Pith Number

pith:DTUYVLKI

pith:2012:DTUYVLKIM3JITAA5MOBCBJPQXN

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Conditional Kolmogorov Complexity and Universal Probability

Paul M. B. Vitanyi (CWI, University of Amsterdam)

arxiv:1206.0983 v2 · 2012-06-05 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DTUYVLKIM3JITAA5MOBCBJPQXN}

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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	2026-05-18T03:35:54.078695Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1ce98aad4866d289801d638220a5f0bb78b0e7d6ae7014b66b9860f044a77717

Aliases

arxiv: 1206.0983 · arxiv_version: 1206.0983v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1206.0983 · pith_short_12: DTUYVLKIM3JI · pith_short_16: DTUYVLKIM3JITAA5 · pith_short_8: DTUYVLKI

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/DTUYVLKIM3JITAA5MOBCBJPQXN \
  | 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: 1ce98aad4866d289801d638220a5f0bb78b0e7d6ae7014b66b9860f044a77717

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "48af765ac3c47347e55d7e3fa07e08942034ecc8343667fc5cd95245a564fe7f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2012-06-05T16:30:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "960479431127ea49040a82b6c02daf74393432d3fb18a504627ab511eeb4e466"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1206.0983",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}