Pith Number

pith:LRT33GFX

pith:2012:LRT33GFXLTT6YJYZTLSXG2SJJC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Deterministic Compression with Uncertain Priors

Elad Haramaty, Madhu Sudan

arxiv:1211.5718 v1 · 2012-11-25 · cs.IT · cs.CC · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LRT33GFXLTT6YJYZTLSXG2SJJC}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T03:40:02.180011Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5c67bd98b75ce7ec27199ae5736a4948a664cc569b413e93df37948dde350086

Aliases

arxiv: 1211.5718 · arxiv_version: 1211.5718v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1211.5718 · pith_short_12: LRT33GFXLTT6 · pith_short_16: LRT33GFXLTT6YJYZ · pith_short_8: LRT33GFX

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/LRT33GFXLTT6YJYZTLSXG2SJJC \
  | 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: 5c67bd98b75ce7ec27199ae5736a4948a664cc569b413e93df37948dde350086

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "797ac1209ddb979cbeec594d81e6ac60b3ec69a3935fca0ea11c2531e20b9ad3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CC",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2012-11-25T02:28:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ceb3122bbd48dd3224dc53bd362276e827d6ab7c4076b81073d9ae949e007631"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1211.5718",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}