Pith Number

pith:HCIG4VUP

pith:2012:HCIG4VUPMEFP7XPUBWEGHTRPQT

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Erhan Bayraktar, Ross Kravitz

arxiv:1201.1662 v4 · 2012-01-08 · math.PR · cs.IT · math.IT · math.OC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HCIG4VUPMEFP7XPUBWEGHTRPQT}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T03:20:06.728742Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

38906e568f610affddf40d8863ce2f84e0623ccc7f2e382edbbaf9cef3ca7f1a

Aliases

arxiv: 1201.1662 · arxiv_version: 1201.1662v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1201.1662 · pith_short_12: HCIG4VUPMEFP · pith_short_16: HCIG4VUPMEFP7XPU · pith_short_8: HCIG4VUP

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/HCIG4VUPMEFP7XPUBWEGHTRPQT \
  | 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: 38906e568f610affddf40d8863ce2f84e0623ccc7f2e382edbbaf9cef3ca7f1a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "054b3d4bc4b7a67cdaf7c266a765c59f9823831f410348b096cd83142cef78a0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT",
      "math.OC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2012-01-08T22:23:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1371de18c6af58c6c4d7d65624243d2d88f4f02e7c32f7ae0ba9a89df18cfb7c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1201.1662",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}