Pith Number

pith:U4VLRK7D

pith:2013:U4VLRK7DP3XYNDANCNF2VXQ3W4

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Belief and Surprise - A Belief-Function Formulation

Yen-Teh Hsia

arxiv:1303.5724 v1 · 2013-03-20 · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{U4VLRK7DP3XYNDANCNF2VXQ3W4}

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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	2026-05-18T03:30:01.599439Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a72ab8abe37eef868c0d134baade1bb72abb7a9276ef1fac158da7314ba29b82

Aliases

arxiv: 1303.5724 · arxiv_version: 1303.5724v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1303.5724 · pith_short_12: U4VLRK7DP3XY · pith_short_16: U4VLRK7DP3XYNDAN · pith_short_8: U4VLRK7D

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/U4VLRK7DP3XYNDANCNF2VXQ3W4 \
  | 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: a72ab8abe37eef868c0d134baade1bb72abb7a9276ef1fac158da7314ba29b82

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "79ba18b55e70342ab8a468d4c3cb243f65e8e44e50a473f9391f4c1adab2d45c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2013-03-20T15:31:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "71cc6bc5ecc0c32221f0477c5fd9784f283de735091d9252f4a37708bb5b3ff2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1303.5724",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}