Pith Number

pith:VIA55PMG

pith:2016:VIA55PMGXS6X5AB5DKP3TKHPGX

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Observability and diagnosability of finite state systems: a unifying framework

Elena De Santis, Maria Domenica Di Benedetto

arxiv:1608.03195 v2 · 2016-08-10 · math.OC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VIA55PMGXS6X5AB5DKP3TKHPGX}

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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	2026-05-18T00:56:45.663487Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aa01debd86bcbd7e803d1a9fb9a8ef35ecd752e2d75ea404914e5abe3a835bb2

Aliases

arxiv: 1608.03195 · arxiv_version: 1608.03195v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1608.03195 · pith_short_12: VIA55PMGXS6X · pith_short_16: VIA55PMGXS6X5AB5 · pith_short_8: VIA55PMG

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VIA55PMGXS6X5AB5DKP3TKHPGX \
  | 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: aa01debd86bcbd7e803d1a9fb9a8ef35ecd752e2d75ea404914e5abe3a835bb2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4c2c3250610756ce42555cc1aa8d0796764195c88b40a102228ae13263e9e222",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2016-08-10T14:52:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "91c83df1f8988d285f740cb9592c14dd348cd63bf5c4184483a4c3a798702fe6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1608.03195",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}