Pith Number

pith:NDBXAE4Q

pith:2017:NDBXAE4QYCEK7TS5KFGIQOMDZ5

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Error correction based on partial information

Alexander Barg, Itzhak Tamo, Min Ye

arxiv:1701.06969 v2 · 2017-01-24 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NDBXAE4QYCEK7TS5KFGIQOMDZ5}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T00:03:50.378413Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

68c3701390c088afce5d514c883983cf7c26c4ee09ed3d1ed9575d4f1e1f9e04

Aliases

arxiv: 1701.06969 · arxiv_version: 1701.06969v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1701.06969 · pith_short_12: NDBXAE4QYCEK · pith_short_16: NDBXAE4QYCEK7TS5 · pith_short_8: NDBXAE4Q

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/NDBXAE4QYCEK7TS5KFGIQOMDZ5 \
  | 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: 68c3701390c088afce5d514c883983cf7c26c4ee09ed3d1ed9575d4f1e1f9e04

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0b3aedbe49f2df045b6b5329ead78012c01ec930b5d8e9ecb64f2ffdabacce2c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-01-24T16:33:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "51e9f674a01b17a1500b52af4fcd8456676f13887efdc317375031589acde093"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1701.06969",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}