Pith Number

pith:VPXK375C

pith:2014:VPXK375CQN4HQMDQV2352Q7C2G

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On the Total Variation Distance of Labelled Markov Chains

Stefan Kiefer, Taolue Chen

arxiv:1405.2852 v1 · 2014-05-12 · cs.LO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VPXK375CQN4HQMDQV2352Q7C2G}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:51:49.360625Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

abeeadffa28378783070aeb7dd43e2d1b4ab511c812f4c82685991fa6df17373

Aliases

arxiv: 1405.2852 · arxiv_version: 1405.2852v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1405.2852 · pith_short_12: VPXK375CQN4H · pith_short_16: VPXK375CQN4HQMDQ · pith_short_8: VPXK375C

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/VPXK375CQN4HQMDQV2352Q7C2G \
  | 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: abeeadffa28378783070aeb7dd43e2d1b4ab511c812f4c82685991fa6df17373

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ae303d65cedb820c59d3c134bd6e9d2f3ce34bf7dd06b710aedf7d1a79b83c13",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LO",
    "submitted_at": "2014-05-12T17:47:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "45aad7ace6a1eef5d5e1ff5e01f9e1e52708c230312e7b421df862e6dcb399af"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1405.2852",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}