Pith Number

pith:XIXB5VQM

pith:2016:XIXB5VQM6XGHXAWQCPAOVSYMMC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

An Encoding for Order-Preserving Matching

Giovanni Manzini, Rossano Venturini, Travis Gagie

arxiv:1610.02865 v2 · 2016-10-10 · cs.DS

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XIXB5VQM6XGHXAWQCPAOVSYMMC}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T00:50:30.864583Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ba2e1ed60cf5cc7b82d013c0eacb0c60aeb6d1013b8a93b7e570d65ae47191c7

Aliases

arxiv: 1610.02865 · arxiv_version: 1610.02865v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1610.02865 · pith_short_12: XIXB5VQM6XGH · pith_short_16: XIXB5VQM6XGHXAWQ · pith_short_8: XIXB5VQM

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/XIXB5VQM6XGHXAWQCPAOVSYMMC \
  | 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: ba2e1ed60cf5cc7b82d013c0eacb0c60aeb6d1013b8a93b7e570d65ae47191c7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8b68ccd19c1f2139408dbdb4f44b17aa478915ae6bded42e04404709b1d7b50c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2016-10-10T11:47:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8a96302d4ff87134ed823b94bcbf81e65feae6938dd676e8aaef5713470f3696"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1610.02865",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}