Pith Number

pith:F737P6MV

pith:2017:F737P6MVW67DSFFHMTUVSB4EX3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

From LZ77 to the Run-Length Encoded Burrows-Wheeler Transform, and Back

Alberto Policriti, Nicola Prezza

arxiv:1702.01340 v1 · 2017-02-04 · cs.DS

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{F737P6MVW67DSFFHMTUVSB4EX3}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:51:23.724249Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2ff7f7f995b7be3914a764e9590784bed63dc365e6636ee95d91da15d9390024

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.01340 · arxiv_version: 1702.01340v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.01340 · pith_short_12: F737P6MVW67D · pith_short_16: F737P6MVW67DSFFH · pith_short_8: F737P6MV

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/F737P6MVW67DSFFHMTUVSB4EX3 \
  | 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: 2ff7f7f995b7be3914a764e9590784bed63dc365e6636ee95d91da15d9390024

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0f6f9006d6918f589159e1d8ea3fd22867795e9ed0e5b676ee700cbec6c89a37",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-04T20:19:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e95d77b38d9e134b0e213fc5352b6f8f40222f0cfc94bc1b2c846bb29ab02678"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.01340",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}