Pith Number

pith:VICVAOLJ

pith:2016:VICVAOLJYPA7IVCY4BZGJHHM34

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Know When to Persist: Deriving Value from a Stream Buffer

Danny Krizanc, Evangelos Kranakis, George Karakostas, Konstantinos Georgiou

arxiv:1604.03009 v1 · 2016-04-11 · cs.DS

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VICVAOLJYPA7IVCY4BZGJHHM34}

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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	2026-05-18T01:17:21.650269Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aa05503969c3c1f45458e072649cecdf1008c87dbcb0ff94b76a6b9f09e6acbd

Aliases

arxiv: 1604.03009 · arxiv_version: 1604.03009v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1604.03009 · pith_short_12: VICVAOLJYPA7 · pith_short_16: VICVAOLJYPA7IVCY · pith_short_8: VICVAOLJ

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/VICVAOLJYPA7IVCY4BZGJHHM34 \
  | 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: aa05503969c3c1f45458e072649cecdf1008c87dbcb0ff94b76a6b9f09e6acbd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ad621d5bcb2d60b0cae55dd54a9626d2f5c6899d063d35234a84795a250fa540",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2016-04-11T15:52:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "87604993b698c0640bd9d8137db1f8cd2478d44a55ed22a13d425b78597f583b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1604.03009",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}