Pith Number

pith:OTFBNQF7

pith:2011:OTFBNQF7FYHKCCVQNZFIARNHG2

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Towards an axiomatic system for Kolmogorov complexity

Antoine Taveneaux

arxiv:1102.0686 v2 · 2011-02-03 · cs.IT · cs.CC · cs.LO · math.IT · math.LO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OTFBNQF7FYHKCCVQNZFIARNHG2}

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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	2026-05-18T04:25:25.475498Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

74ca16c0bf2e0ea10ab06e4a8045a7369853b70d664b8afae11a085d30c35479

Aliases

arxiv: 1102.0686 · arxiv_version: 1102.0686v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1102.0686 · pith_short_12: OTFBNQF7FYHK · pith_short_16: OTFBNQF7FYHKCCVQ · pith_short_8: OTFBNQF7

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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/OTFBNQF7FYHKCCVQNZFIARNHG2 \
  | 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: 74ca16c0bf2e0ea10ab06e4a8045a7369853b70d664b8afae11a085d30c35479

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3ad433bbbb95e525e367290259f8baf644e1067ce5f13c0119e86936cadab2b7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CC",
      "cs.LO",
      "math.IT",
      "math.LO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2011-02-03T13:58:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "71e5f5eaafb76e72144d86cf8ea4474211e3c7082a14ad1be7d76d4df4fa4c3c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1102.0686",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}