Pith Number

pith:VDMBEIGJ

pith:2011:VDMBEIGJ6FE2GJQUK7VVUPHOIR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Minimum Complexity Pursuit

Arian Maleki, Shirin Jalali

arxiv:1110.3561 v1 · 2011-10-17 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VDMBEIGJ6FE2GJQUK7VVUPHOIR}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T04:10:48.945360Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a8d81220c9f149a3261457eb5a3cee44739bdbac6fadc9a8927b65da19da7cdb

Aliases

arxiv: 1110.3561 · arxiv_version: 1110.3561v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1110.3561 · pith_short_12: VDMBEIGJ6FE2 · pith_short_16: VDMBEIGJ6FE2GJQU · pith_short_8: VDMBEIGJ

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/VDMBEIGJ6FE2GJQUK7VVUPHOIR \
  | 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: a8d81220c9f149a3261457eb5a3cee44739bdbac6fadc9a8927b65da19da7cdb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "898ca8c5b1098402901a25833ec0583ee0aac009ad9bf483102782922bf5a935",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2011-10-17T02:35:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ccc80d42ce956191b235beb47ce7a00e58f84260a51edd7cb26bf64b11139d7e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1110.3561",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}