Pith Number

pith:VEKK5A7C

pith:2013:VEKK5A7COSWHICRDPFUQJEVWZP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Annotations for Sparse Data Streams

Amit Chakrabarti, Graham Cormode, Justin Thaler, Navin Goyal

arxiv:1304.3816 v1 · 2013-04-13 · cs.CC · cs.DS

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VEKK5A7COSWHICRDPFUQJEVWZP}

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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	2026-05-18T03:28:04.265348Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a914ae83e274ac740a2379690492b6cbcf1cc08d3265e6c3fe7bd5aaed789948

Aliases

arxiv: 1304.3816 · arxiv_version: 1304.3816v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1304.3816 · pith_short_12: VEKK5A7COSWH · pith_short_16: VEKK5A7COSWHICRD · pith_short_8: VEKK5A7C

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/VEKK5A7COSWHICRDPFUQJEVWZP \
  | 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: a914ae83e274ac740a2379690492b6cbcf1cc08d3265e6c3fe7bd5aaed789948

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2f8d74457a94f49e7643eda5ae13c75f15fd574e0f3807081b579d7f0da86ee4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CC",
    "submitted_at": "2013-04-13T15:17:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7fd2d4216e022ba8724c625b91b62d4ee10046a4544763a7995639d84094469c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1304.3816",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}