Pith Number

pith:VDZBSWIH

pith:2020:VDZBSWIHFZNAPN6S7UVEPPZREQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Delegated Stochastic Probing

Curtis Bechtel, Shaddin Dughmi

arxiv:2010.14718 v2 · 2020-10-28 · cs.GT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VDZBSWIHFZNAPN6S7UVEPPZREQ}

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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.

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T01:57:06.897451Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a8f21959072e5a07b7d2fd2a47bf31242a1521ba7a7d199da7c246c3ddb3f04d

Aliases

arxiv: 2010.14718 · arxiv_version: 2010.14718v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2010.14718 · pith_short_12: VDZBSWIHFZNA · pith_short_16: VDZBSWIHFZNAPN6S · pith_short_8: VDZBSWIH

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/VDZBSWIHFZNAPN6S7UVEPPZREQ \
  | 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: a8f21959072e5a07b7d2fd2a47bf31242a1521ba7a7d199da7c246c3ddb3f04d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "38201fe8a7375eecdd56eaa2bbaa0b0991c7553af3fc0790d795a7b23812715c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2020-10-28T02:57:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "02f85e48f7be70e82055e0aec6aef04eea00ead9ac2ca0aaaa203abc7e7d33cd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2010.14718",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}