Pith Number

pith:VBM4EGYD

pith:2018:VBM4EGYDHB72NGQ7B5GL4J4YDM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Multiset-Partition Distribution Matching

David S. Millar, Keisuke Kojima, Kieran Parsons, Tobias Fehenberger, Toshiaki Koike-Akino

arxiv:1801.08445 v2 · 2018-01-25 · eess.SP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VBM4EGYDHB72NGQ7B5GL4J4YDM}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T00:08:27.888146Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a859c21b03387fa69a1f0f4cbe27981b2545d8f539b9b09e2954d26f9de6d642

Aliases

arxiv: 1801.08445 · arxiv_version: 1801.08445v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1801.08445 · pith_short_12: VBM4EGYDHB72 · pith_short_16: VBM4EGYDHB72NGQ7 · pith_short_8: VBM4EGYD

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/VBM4EGYDHB72NGQ7B5GL4J4YDM \
  | 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: a859c21b03387fa69a1f0f4cbe27981b2545d8f539b9b09e2954d26f9de6d642

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c3d6970a14268ec526643b790b1fbd8392ae6d0be1ef59ffe7ffd39346cfc2e2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "eess.SP",
    "submitted_at": "2018-01-25T15:15:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "349ede37d2294a7ad6d890156509fa3eedc774829c97730c7eacfd51a62ba2db"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1801.08445",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}