Pith Number

pith:XU34VDYM

pith:2012:XU34VDYMUL5LE436UHAEECS2G4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Fast and sensitive read mapping with approximate seeds and multiple backtracking

David Weese, Enrico Siragusa, Knut Reinert

arxiv:1208.4238 v1 · 2012-08-21 · cs.DS

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XU34VDYMUL5LE436UHAEECS2G4}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T03:48:24.051481Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bd37ca8f0ca2fab2737ea1c0420a5a372a8479944a7aff16e47c22e31d8906b1

Aliases

arxiv: 1208.4238 · arxiv_version: 1208.4238v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1208.4238 · pith_short_12: XU34VDYMUL5L · pith_short_16: XU34VDYMUL5LE436 · pith_short_8: XU34VDYM

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/XU34VDYMUL5LE436UHAEECS2G4 \
  | 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: bd37ca8f0ca2fab2737ea1c0420a5a372a8479944a7aff16e47c22e31d8906b1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "97b284b78720f2fa2bb9a5a066b99bce8907d3e42df2b07f1fa1b642d4a7919e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2012-08-21T11:08:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3fd1bce622abbcf79645186820d3bfc2ea8a02fa66f6051414962ae064a25048"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1208.4238",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}