Pith Number

pith:KPA2VMDF

pith:2005:KPA2VMDFHHZHW6YORDRA4TCCRA

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On the size of the algebraic difference of two random Cantor sets

Karoly Simon, Michel Dekking

arxiv:math/0512544 v2 · 2005-12-23 · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KPA2VMDFHHZHW6YORDRA4TCCRA}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T04:32:00.181609Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

53c1aab06539f27b7b0e88e20e4c4288393a8f8ad451cffbc679a31cc9a94eb3

Aliases

arxiv: math/0512544 · arxiv_version: math/0512544v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.math/0512544 · pith_short_12: KPA2VMDFHHZH · pith_short_16: KPA2VMDFHHZHW6YO · pith_short_8: KPA2VMDF

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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/KPA2VMDFHHZHW6YORDRA4TCCRA \
  | 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: 53c1aab06539f27b7b0e88e20e4c4288393a8f8ad451cffbc679a31cc9a94eb3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d8ba7374b9c2c6ba87587eded12d8b60d09261e299b6f29b780464ed639c2e55",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2005-12-23T15:44:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7bde188349b981a37ce05e4edd78c1662550fad2aa45e47afa03cb1b05bf9f92"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "math/0512544",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}