Pith Number

pith:HXWZ3V65

pith:2010:HXWZ3V65OMQYEGRO24AVBLD3KF

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On extracting common random bits from correlated sources

Andrej Bogdanov, Elchanan Mossel

arxiv:1007.2315 v2 · 2010-07-14 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HXWZ3V65OMQYEGRO24AVBLD3KF}

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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	2026-05-18T04:12:32.465424Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3ded9dd7dd7321821a2ed70150ac7b5162b10e2b93acd14ecaf12502a179d0db

Aliases

arxiv: 1007.2315 · arxiv_version: 1007.2315v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1007.2315 · pith_short_12: HXWZ3V65OMQY · pith_short_16: HXWZ3V65OMQYEGRO · pith_short_8: HXWZ3V65

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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/HXWZ3V65OMQYEGRO24AVBLD3KF \
  | 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: 3ded9dd7dd7321821a2ed70150ac7b5162b10e2b93acd14ecaf12502a179d0db

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a12664c263655e10938c05fb0f8a4528983dd081ae8bf147de2faff516dbe6b6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2010-07-14T12:46:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e451339c61ad532c8ba1b7dc75a63a917b6008b950f571647143f4cd3d5908fa"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1007.2315",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}