Pith Number

pith:VSA6I4VK

pith:2024:VSA6I4VKVMXWAGYMHHED7GAY2M

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Complete Solution of the Lady in the Lake Scenario

Alexander Von Moll, Meir Pachter

arxiv:2401.14994 v1 · 2024-01-26 · math.OC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VSA6I4VKVMXWAGYMHHED7GAY2M}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-07-05T07:38:05.060932Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ac81e472aaab2f601b0c39c83f9818d33c919f2a8fe283b637f7b2a7a4c5222e

Aliases

arxiv: 2401.14994 · arxiv_version: 2401.14994v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2401.14994 · pith_short_12: VSA6I4VKVMXW · pith_short_16: VSA6I4VKVMXWAGYM · pith_short_8: VSA6I4VK

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/VSA6I4VKVMXWAGYMHHED7GAY2M \
  | 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: ac81e472aaab2f601b0c39c83f9818d33c919f2a8fe283b637f7b2a7a4c5222e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "424c39cb235d94832595233adbff95a784286acd42c70ba11e3b4bd7f7189ee6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2024-01-26T16:47:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ac8cfe451154e26bb03ddb0a500ab94d386c56cd12442c93ef046d46381b86b1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2401.14994",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}