Pith Number

pith:QGSIYHXY

pith:2018:QGSIYHXYRWEBGQR7YJMQSLS2B5

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Understanding Differences among Executions with Variational Traces

Christian K\"astner, Chu-Pan Wong, Gunter Saake, Jens Meinicke

arxiv:1807.03837 v1 · 2018-07-10 · cs.SE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QGSIYHXYRWEBGQR7YJMQSLS2B5}

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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	2026-05-18T00:10:58.907514Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

81a48c1ef88d8813423fc259092e5a0f400166b39c4ff38be2e0ffec202907c3

Aliases

arxiv: 1807.03837 · arxiv_version: 1807.03837v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1807.03837 · pith_short_12: QGSIYHXYRWEB · pith_short_16: QGSIYHXYRWEBGQR7 · pith_short_8: QGSIYHXY

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/QGSIYHXYRWEBGQR7YJMQSLS2B5 \
  | 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: 81a48c1ef88d8813423fc259092e5a0f400166b39c4ff38be2e0ffec202907c3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "928f3904cf0bc4baa38d0100532839415752be207146d2d06e9cf5200bb81cc5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2018-07-10T19:35:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cab3428cc4d5797522b12d16a0f2f637e84491867ef58a9144459e7088f1b3a4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1807.03837",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}