Pith Number

pith:VDKRUZ6Y

pith:2020:VDKRUZ6YZXJEF4G3LZIFPLWBP3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On One-way Functions and Kolmogorov Complexity

Rafael Pass, Yanyi Liu

arxiv:2009.11514 v1 · 2020-09-24 · cs.CC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VDKRUZ6YZXJEF4G3LZIFPLWBP3}

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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	2026-07-05T01:37:46.493033Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a8d51a67d8cdd242f0db5e5057aec17ece8cf9aca10722a23592b5e44448dd2f

Aliases

arxiv: 2009.11514 · arxiv_version: 2009.11514v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2009.11514 · pith_short_12: VDKRUZ6YZXJE · pith_short_16: VDKRUZ6YZXJEF4G3 · pith_short_8: VDKRUZ6Y

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/VDKRUZ6YZXJEF4G3LZIFPLWBP3 \
  | 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: a8d51a67d8cdd242f0db5e5057aec17ece8cf9aca10722a23592b5e44448dd2f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4ef1fdb472391f4044cdcb74cdf5b77d0b81448ebd73174f1ead83c07304e8dd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CC",
    "submitted_at": "2020-09-24T06:50:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6cbf0b57a16b5d907f8f9d7bfef506f412ea432b96559da711841d7e99511be4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2009.11514",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}