Pith Number

pith:HBLVREIA

pith:2013:HBLVREIAZYDK6KZCPXDY4ZTQPL

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Combination of Evidence Using the Principle of Minimum Information Gain

Michael S. K. M. Wong, P. Lingras

arxiv:1304.1135 v1 · 2013-03-27 · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HBLVREIAZYDK6KZCPXDY4ZTQPL}

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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	2026-05-18T03:29:04.438914Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3857589100ce06af2b227dc78e66707ac5a3dd1bb31bd9c70b67d4f70cf952ed

Aliases

arxiv: 1304.1135 · arxiv_version: 1304.1135v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1304.1135 · pith_short_12: HBLVREIAZYDK · pith_short_16: HBLVREIAZYDK6KZC · pith_short_8: HBLVREIA

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/HBLVREIAZYDK6KZCPXDY4ZTQPL \
  | 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: 3857589100ce06af2b227dc78e66707ac5a3dd1bb31bd9c70b67d4f70cf952ed

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f9851187f3d77f1236a3443c602268a9f6a49305c4d6f60963217745ecda81bd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2013-03-27T13:59:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b17357e7bcfb082d5452017f46869e4e682053dc90db62750c1c45f7f9520c5a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1304.1135",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}