Pith Number

pith:K5LC7ALH

pith:2017:K5LC7ALHRT64XOWBTQEHVWIZPR

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A compressed dynamic self-index for highly repetitive text collections

Takaaki Nishimoto, Yasuo Tabei, Yoshimasa Takabatake

arxiv:1711.02855 v4 · 2017-11-08 · cs.DS

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{K5LC7ALHRT64XOWBTQEHVWIZPR}

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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	2026-05-18T00:17:42.450523Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

57562f81678cfdcbbac19c087ad9197c50bf5ee8e8920f9d8babb1282f81667f

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.02855 · arxiv_version: 1711.02855v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.02855 · pith_short_12: K5LC7ALHRT64 · pith_short_16: K5LC7ALHRT64XOWB · pith_short_8: K5LC7ALH

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/K5LC7ALHRT64XOWBTQEHVWIZPR \
  | 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: 57562f81678cfdcbbac19c087ad9197c50bf5ee8e8920f9d8babb1282f81667f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "06fbe6812ab92fdb2f23d0ff4375d7d13106435f756089049a99a7e76f5cd21a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-08T07:43:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0458dcc3ab05280ecf31733b5f7a1e6d51618a8c864f60cb941a20f292544ea4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.02855",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}