Pith Number

pith:S5O5LPBM

pith:2018:S5O5LPBM4AOSIOAEKYZ3JV7BW2

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Arbitrarily Varying Remote Sources

Amitalok J. Budkuley, Bikash Kumar Dey, Sidharth Jaggi, Vinod M. Prabhakaran

arxiv:1809.04464 v1 · 2018-09-11 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{S5O5LPBM4AOSIOAEKYZ3JV7BW2}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:05:52.272064Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

975dd5bc2ce01d2438045633b4d7e1b692542d646ed846264e0d02bad4b5cf58

Aliases

arxiv: 1809.04464 · arxiv_version: 1809.04464v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1809.04464 · pith_short_12: S5O5LPBM4AOS · pith_short_16: S5O5LPBM4AOSIOAE · pith_short_8: S5O5LPBM

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/S5O5LPBM4AOSIOAEKYZ3JV7BW2 \
  | 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: 975dd5bc2ce01d2438045633b4d7e1b692542d646ed846264e0d02bad4b5cf58

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dc18e15ab5565062d0dec8e9240a4c880a0a1570805df54102a9450e1f9a5c58",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2018-09-11T17:57:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "06daadd18f77dbfc2ee7dce05a059eed4c14a6f3cf66ce5224f4b29cf6796ad5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1809.04464",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}