Pith Number

pith:TWC7E3VM

pith:2012:TWC7E3VMUDA7OCSSTI5DYT5YVV

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On extracting common random bits from correlated sources on large alphabets

Elchanan Mossel, Joe Neeman, Siu On Chan

arxiv:1208.5946 v1 · 2012-08-29 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TWC7E3VMUDA7OCSSTI5DYT5YVV}

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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	2026-05-18T03:46:48.255637Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9d85f26eaca0c1f70a529a3a3c4fb8ad4e002e9cb14211840f27f54d6801be5e

Aliases

arxiv: 1208.5946 · arxiv_version: 1208.5946v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1208.5946 · pith_short_12: TWC7E3VMUDA7 · pith_short_16: TWC7E3VMUDA7OCSS · pith_short_8: TWC7E3VM

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/TWC7E3VMUDA7OCSSTI5DYT5YVV \
  | 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: 9d85f26eaca0c1f70a529a3a3c4fb8ad4e002e9cb14211840f27f54d6801be5e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9f3c364e86fd95cf56f3f47e99ad6e921b85cdb3147ea074c5af096c7484ea60",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2012-08-29T15:27:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9def21216be1461b554f42d826c94bda52edf734adef648790b4134f87e5f91d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1208.5946",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}