Pith Number

pith:LXV67GGN

pith:2010:LXV67GGNU36YMOUIB3LINYF5TM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Information-theoretic inference of common ancestors

Bastian Steudel, Nihat Ay

arxiv:1010.5720 v1 · 2010-10-27 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LXV67GGNU36YMOUIB3LINYF5TM}

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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	2026-05-18T04:38:16.071826Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5debef98cda6fd863a880ed686e0bd9b121366dbcf4bc967b35d2fba09aad8a9

Aliases

arxiv: 1010.5720 · arxiv_version: 1010.5720v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1010.5720 · pith_short_12: LXV67GGNU36Y · pith_short_16: LXV67GGNU36YMOUI · pith_short_8: LXV67GGN

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/LXV67GGNU36YMOUIB3LINYF5TM \
  | 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: 5debef98cda6fd863a880ed686e0bd9b121366dbcf4bc967b35d2fba09aad8a9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4309f347b3163871811ae4ca0840fbff977562dfcc73e7cd169e3fb94b32f947",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2010-10-27T15:45:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5bb151a314eebeb1fd424e7fd0b02a923f759ed6d4ebe0b78086930ca09dfd4f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1010.5720",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}