Pith Number

pith:VDCKLLRA

pith:2010:VDCKLLRANT6SOZQ75ERO2XTT7G

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Effective complexity of stationary process realizations

Arleta Szkola, Markus Mueller, Nihat Ay

arxiv:1001.2686 v2 · 2010-01-15 · cs.IT · math.IT

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:09:43.818126Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a8c4a5ae206cfd27661fe922ed5e73f9b52c928a61ceb602d45014aa6771bd39

Aliases

arxiv: 1001.2686 · arxiv_version: 1001.2686v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1001.2686 · pith_short_12: VDCKLLRANT6S · pith_short_16: VDCKLLRANT6SOZQ7 · pith_short_8: VDCKLLRA

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VDCKLLRANT6SOZQ75ERO2XTT7G \
  | 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: a8c4a5ae206cfd27661fe922ed5e73f9b52c928a61ceb602d45014aa6771bd39

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "766e2fe55586a6dcf9dc3630e17c4bed5b15f6f6e3b1267b41ea0a52698c719b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2010-01-15T13:22:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1bece6fb14331938e94139872dd73b16b0f82dfdc5c457b58266aa1f9e5db1e5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1001.2686",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}