Pith Number

pith:WZJHCKXW

pith:2014:WZJHCKXW7V4TR7U7GXSEIH3IAQ

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A Kernel-Based Calculation of Information on a Metric Space

Conor J. Houghton, R. Joshua Tobin

arxiv:1405.4572 v1 · 2014-05-19 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WZJHCKXW7V4TR7U7GXSEIH3IAQ}

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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	2026-05-18T02:51:35.180660Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b652712af6fd7938fe9f35e4441f680437e95b310cd444f088885320a074904c

Aliases

arxiv: 1405.4572 · arxiv_version: 1405.4572v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1405.4572 · pith_short_12: WZJHCKXW7V4T · pith_short_16: WZJHCKXW7V4TR7U7 · pith_short_8: WZJHCKXW

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/WZJHCKXW7V4TR7U7GXSEIH3IAQ \
  | 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: b652712af6fd7938fe9f35e4441f680437e95b310cd444f088885320a074904c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2ef86747d6e04ff86549b86458f9bca1af71d98d1629e6e94e022eeb572486bf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2014-05-19T01:17:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "69c4efea8430aad658bbce5d382f5f8d83aedd5725833e39bd17ec01c778a1d4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1405.4572",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}