Pith Number

pith:MONX45Y6

pith:2017:MONX45Y6HPKPJURP4KTCHJ4AC2

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Unique Entity Estimation with Application to the Syrian Conflict

Anshumali Shrivastava, Beidi Chen, Rebecca C. Steorts

arxiv:1710.02690 v1 · 2017-10-07 · stat.AP · cs.DB · cs.DS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MONX45Y6HPKPJURP4KTCHJ4AC2}

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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	2026-05-18T00:33:29.129562Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

639b7e771e3bd4f4d22fe2a623a78016b1ed24e367c9633f01f8466b40b9b7c5

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.02690 · arxiv_version: 1710.02690v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.02690 · pith_short_12: MONX45Y6HPKP · pith_short_16: MONX45Y6HPKPJURP · pith_short_8: MONX45Y6

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MONX45Y6HPKPJURP4KTCHJ4AC2 \
  | 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: 639b7e771e3bd4f4d22fe2a623a78016b1ed24e367c9633f01f8466b40b9b7c5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "67d2a09f3acacb2f72a57c0395348d18ba5a98ffc049a3e1c3fc680aae5fdc1c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DB",
      "cs.DS"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.AP",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-07T14:30:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bcbab0352e201892d6542fd8746b70aa62558e9b748f11f399d59ccb5cd76ee1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.02690",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}