Pith Number

pith:EK2CKNRD

pith:2019:EK2CKNRDWVWN5YM3UGKQILJMUO

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On a conditional inequality in Kolmogorov complexity and its applications in communication complexity

Andrei Romashchenko, Marius Zimand

arxiv:1905.00164 v1 · 2019-05-01 · cs.CC · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EK2CKNRDWVWN5YM3UGKQILJMUO}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:47:13.528959Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

22b4253623b56cdee19ba195042d2ca3b29e6cd129174ef31f560045828d4a73

Aliases

arxiv: 1905.00164 · arxiv_version: 1905.00164v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1905.00164 · pith_short_12: EK2CKNRDWVWN · pith_short_16: EK2CKNRDWVWN5YM3 · pith_short_8: EK2CKNRD

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/EK2CKNRDWVWN5YM3UGKQILJMUO \
  | 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: 22b4253623b56cdee19ba195042d2ca3b29e6cd129174ef31f560045828d4a73

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "21b639b592739372644ad4d936a6102afe24160da03711323eeba3d4e0646872",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CC",
    "submitted_at": "2019-05-01T02:25:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3720029e198280af9fd31dd512dfa8b8d8e4c0a8b2d2986136cc3257223a18e8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1905.00164",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}