Pith Number

pith:MBFIXP6W

pith:2019:MBFIXP6WZKPEUP4VH6EHT2CZXN

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Coded trace reconstruction in a constant number of traces

Bruce Spang, Joshua Brakensiek, Ray Li

arxiv:1908.03996 v3 · 2019-08-12 · cs.IT · cs.CC · cs.DS · math.CO · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MBFIXP6WZKPEUP4VH6EHT2CZXN}

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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	2026-07-05T01:34:49.392303Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

604a8bbfd6ca9e4a3f953f8879e859bb4a5b4a733a7fa4fb77d84a7123f5055f

Aliases

arxiv: 1908.03996 · arxiv_version: 1908.03996v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1908.03996 · pith_short_12: MBFIXP6WZKPE · pith_short_16: MBFIXP6WZKPEUP4V · pith_short_8: MBFIXP6W

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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/MBFIXP6WZKPEUP4VH6EHT2CZXN \
  | 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: 604a8bbfd6ca9e4a3f953f8879e859bb4a5b4a733a7fa4fb77d84a7123f5055f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c323138729efdeedc01cd5681be7be8afe1319722631555a00095ac586040c0e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CC",
      "cs.DS",
      "math.CO",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2019-08-12T04:27:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "dc00f706305297d2f6cebe65343294a70afe1c9fc8152b8d23bf50aaaffbd6e9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1908.03996",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}