Pith Number

pith:QEHLUEOT

pith:2013:QEHLUEOT5JWUUGW4IBJIQBPKBK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Assumptions Behind Dempster's Rule

Nic Wilson

arxiv:1303.1518 v1 · 2013-03-06 · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QEHLUEOT5JWUUGW4IBJIQBPKBK}

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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	2026-05-18T03:31:42.341102Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

810eba11d3ea6d4a1adc40528805ea0a883f9a6754c059fc0976d7eb0d1bae3b

Aliases

arxiv: 1303.1518 · arxiv_version: 1303.1518v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1303.1518 · pith_short_12: QEHLUEOT5JWU · pith_short_16: QEHLUEOT5JWUUGW4 · pith_short_8: QEHLUEOT

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/QEHLUEOT5JWUUGW4IBJIQBPKBK \
  | 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: 810eba11d3ea6d4a1adc40528805ea0a883f9a6754c059fc0976d7eb0d1bae3b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "569f264ef27895508d155004ca42a079f4a30d42a372c90c5b8a90c235ac51b1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2013-03-06T14:24:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d7e8f63053066c943fe62c44eb15986e7dd4da0dfcb6a02c9935492cc53842b8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1303.1518",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}