Pith Number

pith:QNVLFAI3

pith:2018:QNVLFAI3BL3VJXY67Y7XMHRTSF

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On the shortest distance between orbits and the longest common substring problem

Jerome Rousseau, Lingmin Liao, Vanessa Barros

arxiv:1808.00078 v2 · 2018-07-31 · math.DS · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QNVLFAI3BL3VJXY67Y7XMHRTSF}

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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	2026-05-17T23:57:19.312439Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

836ab2811b0af754df1efe3f761e339142c0ec5bb3b8f33169d1fa702b224666

Aliases

arxiv: 1808.00078 · arxiv_version: 1808.00078v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1808.00078 · pith_short_12: QNVLFAI3BL3V · pith_short_16: QNVLFAI3BL3VJXY6 · pith_short_8: QNVLFAI3

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QNVLFAI3BL3VJXY67Y7XMHRTSF \
  | 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: 836ab2811b0af754df1efe3f761e339142c0ec5bb3b8f33169d1fa702b224666

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a6480760efbe23ec258eb5cbc872dc934ad7ef504d57bd36d015da25cc829d1e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.PR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2018-07-31T21:34:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b1611c4d1cb4009bd8ed19896981d04073bfd27f6b142d6750687436fc188655"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1808.00078",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}