Pith Number

pith:XHTJDREO

pith:2019:XHTJDREOGVGW7US6HJCS4HSF7U

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Parallel decompression of gzip-compressed files and random access to DNA sequences

Ma\"el Kerbiriou, Rayan Chikhi

arxiv:1905.07224 v1 · 2019-05-17 · cs.DS · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XHTJDREOGVGW7US6HJCS4HSF7U}

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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	2026-05-17T23:45:56.122480Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b9e691c48e354d6fd25e3a452e1e45fd30b5098e9e4cc76a179da41d71534fbc

Aliases

arxiv: 1905.07224 · arxiv_version: 1905.07224v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1905.07224 · pith_short_12: XHTJDREOGVGW · pith_short_16: XHTJDREOGVGW7US6 · pith_short_8: XHTJDREO

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/XHTJDREOGVGW7US6HJCS4HSF7U \
  | 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: b9e691c48e354d6fd25e3a452e1e45fd30b5098e9e4cc76a179da41d71534fbc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "95fbcff10a2765e5a55a2928e1a823f81cbe8df55d635460603f566fb22de7ff",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2019-05-17T12:24:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "60ee4440f6bdce9ac9566d74dc143875d502c6c310d375cd45cbbbdfcfa05174"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1905.07224",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}