Pith Number

pith:VIXQAA2N

pith:2024:VIXQAA2N3OIPNBTOOAFPUT7OXG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Common Randomness Generation from Finite Compound Sources

Christian Deppe, Holger Boche, Moritz Wiese, Rami Ezzine

arxiv:2401.14323 v1 · 2024-01-25 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VIXQAA2N3OIPNBTOOAFPUT7OXG}

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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	2026-07-05T07:37:34.450820Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aa2f00034ddb90f6866e700afa4feeb98bc70f1a910da0c2fd1014827638fa35

Aliases

arxiv: 2401.14323 · arxiv_version: 2401.14323v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2401.14323 · pith_short_12: VIXQAA2N3OIP · pith_short_16: VIXQAA2N3OIPNBTO · pith_short_8: VIXQAA2N

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/VIXQAA2N3OIPNBTOOAFPUT7OXG \
  | 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: aa2f00034ddb90f6866e700afa4feeb98bc70f1a910da0c2fd1014827638fa35

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "769c5d918afb9de57b4678cbcfcfbdab9b57e35522262350f9f4ee10e59f4e9e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2024-01-25T17:19:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4401449fce44ddf6f242d2ff1c4ccbebc9a94fc1c90df9e80bbc3f1eb1c970ec"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2401.14323",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}