Pith Number

pith:V4XY2WJR

pith:2016:V4XY2WJR2KS4KQKBIFHBKUWR2Y

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Coding against deletions in oblivious and online models

Ray Li, Venkatesan Guruswami

arxiv:1612.06335 v4 · 2016-12-19 · cs.IT · cs.CC · cs.DS · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{V4XY2WJR2KS4KQKBIFHBKUWR2Y}

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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	2026-05-18T00:39:28.814108Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

af2f8d5931d2a5c54141414e1552d1d6371b16fb2a1dabb0bdd44f893d43cb76

Aliases

arxiv: 1612.06335 · arxiv_version: 1612.06335v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1612.06335 · pith_short_12: V4XY2WJR2KS4 · pith_short_16: V4XY2WJR2KS4KQKB · pith_short_8: V4XY2WJR

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/V4XY2WJR2KS4KQKBIFHBKUWR2Y \
  | 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: af2f8d5931d2a5c54141414e1552d1d6371b16fb2a1dabb0bdd44f893d43cb76

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "73e8bcef7787ade41fa3db2c38592312aa112bf28f1a447f46f2d138d7a2c987",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CC",
      "cs.DS",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2016-12-19T20:36:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "91ceef915a0f3f8a94436376a07fc5991ca598ef13c33589042a51f737b3faf4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1612.06335",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}