Pith Number

pith:IXAEC6FR

pith:2014:IXAEC6FRULF3WT4LWP4POJCQTZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Democratic Representations

Christoph Studer, Richard G. Baraniuk, Tom Goldstein, Wotao Yin

arxiv:1401.3420 v2 · 2014-01-15 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IXAEC6FRULF3WT4LWP4POJCQTZ}

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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	2026-05-18T02:18:22.170196Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

45c04178b1a2cbbb4f8bb3f8f724509e45113ae4f172809c6d13bf8c0d14ce28

Aliases

arxiv: 1401.3420 · arxiv_version: 1401.3420v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1401.3420 · pith_short_12: IXAEC6FRULF3 · pith_short_16: IXAEC6FRULF3WT4L · pith_short_8: IXAEC6FR

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/IXAEC6FRULF3WT4LWP4POJCQTZ \
  | 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: 45c04178b1a2cbbb4f8bb3f8f724509e45113ae4f172809c6d13bf8c0d14ce28

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "74c1c4caac06ab5a8cdc12a3189b38295243c42c4811208b7bf1173e2e96d226",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2014-01-15T03:24:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a567df6ef22cb96d311d930466b0ed4be17a145e78da26324e4736c64bd51adb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1401.3420",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}