Pith Number

pith:OQMBV2FR

pith:2015:OQMBV2FRBBGBB55XY24LPMCB2P

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Coding for interactive communication correcting insertions and deletions

Jieming Mao, Mark Braverman, Rafail Ostrovsky, Ran Gelles

arxiv:1508.00514 v2 · 2015-08-03 · cs.DS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OQMBV2FRBBGBB55XY24LPMCB2P}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:14:03.707269Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

74181ae8b1084c10f7b7c6b8b7b041d3cac7ad73bce45cc71b9ea28d7905d4a7

Aliases

arxiv: 1508.00514 · arxiv_version: 1508.00514v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1508.00514 · pith_short_12: OQMBV2FRBBGB · pith_short_16: OQMBV2FRBBGBB55X · pith_short_8: OQMBV2FR

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/OQMBV2FRBBGBB55XY24LPMCB2P \
  | 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: 74181ae8b1084c10f7b7c6b8b7b041d3cac7ad73bce45cc71b9ea28d7905d4a7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fc5e2cf3ab31584e55e218214d9fdb471b53c43ad0834d59b800344bb0d19857",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2015-08-03T18:37:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5340f836d20d759af2c3fabddc7ca4afcaab718a677d45c87cc2603f9e0ce11c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1508.00514",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}