Pith Number

pith:URAO5ALE

pith:2018:URAO5ALEEQOYVPZP27TIVJG4WO

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Pseudorandom Generators for Width-3 Branching Programs

Avishay Tal, Omer Reingold, Raghu Meka

arxiv:1806.04256 v1 · 2018-06-11 · cs.CC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{URAO5ALEEQOYVPZP27TIVJG4WO}

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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	2026-05-18T00:13:36.094100Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a440ee8164241d8abf2fd7e68aa4dcb3abd417e1e4b06e18e6295433913eabb5

Aliases

arxiv: 1806.04256 · arxiv_version: 1806.04256v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1806.04256 · pith_short_12: URAO5ALEEQOY · pith_short_16: URAO5ALEEQOYVPZP · pith_short_8: URAO5ALE

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/URAO5ALEEQOYVPZP27TIVJG4WO \
  | 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: a440ee8164241d8abf2fd7e68aa4dcb3abd417e1e4b06e18e6295433913eabb5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "926508c61c861d34cd159fca061c7354f6981ce373cd7c0029b4fe91e7bdef8b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-06-11T22:06:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a17fe6c5e698fd385eb0eec71628307d7aeff54175e486d18593d0886a8faa3f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1806.04256",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}