Pith Number

pith:QA2LY2U2

pith:2026:QA2LY2U2JKYV7FQJYZCRBDAFMZ

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Bayesian Networks for Path-Based Sensors: Gathering Information and Path Planning in Communication Denied Environments

Alkesh K. Srivastava, Donald Sofge, George P. Kontoudis, Michael Otte

arxiv:2605.16673 v1 · 2026-05-15 · cs.RO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QA2LY2U2JKYV7FQJYZCRBDAFMZ}

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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	2026-05-20T00:02:35.703781Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8034bc6a9a4ab15f9609c645108c056645f1659cf856b55e596fb75751177f55

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.16673 · arxiv_version: 2605.16673v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.16673 · pith_short_12: QA2LY2U2JKYV · pith_short_16: QA2LY2U2JKYV7FQJ · pith_short_8: QA2LY2U2

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QA2LY2U2JKYV7FQJYZCRBDAFMZ \
  | 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: 8034bc6a9a4ab15f9609c645108c056645f1659cf856b55e596fb75751177f55

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6fe5fcc727e8026d3908f292a2fa9287756340e2ba47579078fe59ad45a58a56",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.RO",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-15T22:25:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "247151a78b795dbde4565adb3ae45e46b5fcdfbc7583ec7b9d5d17f4cd2609c0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.16673",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}