Pith Number

pith:GHEOO3RP

pith:2012:GHEOO3RP6EQJ4DJATRENO22STF

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A modular framework for randomness extraction based on Trevisan's construction

Christopher Portmann, Volkher B. Scholz, Wolfgang Mauerer

arxiv:1212.0520 v1 · 2012-12-03 · cs.IT · cs.MS · math.IT · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GHEOO3RP6EQJ4DJATRENO22STF}

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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	2026-05-18T03:39:17.290186Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

31c8e76e2ff1209e0d209c48d76b529973f2020c6c39f99f911fcf4f0b204edb

Aliases

arxiv: 1212.0520 · arxiv_version: 1212.0520v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1212.0520 · pith_short_12: GHEOO3RP6EQJ · pith_short_16: GHEOO3RP6EQJ4DJA · pith_short_8: GHEOO3RP

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/GHEOO3RP6EQJ4DJATRENO22STF \
  | 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: 31c8e76e2ff1209e0d209c48d76b529973f2020c6c39f99f911fcf4f0b204edb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d67c892744654454f035a42dc707d56092ea51425a679d77699737703f632067",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.MS",
      "math.IT",
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2012-12-03T20:20:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "85adc262e40be3bfa371e68c34117f78ddf4647a0343c45c04712d2c222cd6b8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1212.0520",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}