Pith Number

pith:K5CPST3B

pith:2004:K5CPST3B7JW7XAIFGMZFDH2AZU

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An Algorithm for Quasi-Associative and Quasi-Markovian Rules of Combination in Information Fusion

Florentin Smarandache, Jean Dezert

arxiv:cs/0408021 v2 · 2004-08-08 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{K5CPST3B7JW7XAIFGMZFDH2AZU}

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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	2026-05-18T04:41:04.168981Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5744f94f61fa6dfb81053332519f40cd33cf33fba50d368a87b9e9c54829d2de

Aliases

arxiv: cs/0408021 · arxiv_version: cs/0408021v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cs/0408021 · pith_short_12: K5CPST3B7JW7 · pith_short_16: K5CPST3B7JW7XAIF · pith_short_8: K5CPST3B

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/K5CPST3B7JW7XAIFGMZFDH2AZU \
  | 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: 5744f94f61fa6dfb81053332519f40cd33cf33fba50d368a87b9e9c54829d2de

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c649186791768b9ac7032edbc0b0cbd845f1e0239df61beb43ae8c3c4d7d0abb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2004-08-08T19:41:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "40eaa185abcad772d0b6095618f7e4d15ae750a3e2baeeeadf9d7fc427d40353"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "cs/0408021",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}