Pith Number

pith:IDKKJ2NC

pith:2015:IDKKJ2NCJ3EYEP3FMMKU5KCOBS

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Information Complexity and the Quest for Interactive Compression (A Survey)

Omri Weinstein

arxiv:1504.06830 v1 · 2015-04-26 · cs.CC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IDKKJ2NCJ3EYEP3FMMKU5KCOBS}

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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	2026-05-18T02:17:44.294176Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

40d4a4e9a24ec9823f6563154ea84e0c8991a7630f59543486c49616d57e24c1

Aliases

arxiv: 1504.06830 · arxiv_version: 1504.06830v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1504.06830 · pith_short_12: IDKKJ2NCJ3EY · pith_short_16: IDKKJ2NCJ3EYEP3F · pith_short_8: IDKKJ2NC

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/IDKKJ2NCJ3EYEP3FMMKU5KCOBS \
  | 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: 40d4a4e9a24ec9823f6563154ea84e0c8991a7630f59543486c49616d57e24c1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "48796843f0b95adef0e0599229171f3837b63f11f6a1330cae8b84da75a62403",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CC",
    "submitted_at": "2015-04-26T14:30:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a229b3e745876a63086d9e2cdfd0d86118e5315c7794aa6d15fa5026ca77e3ea"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1504.06830",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}