Pith Number

pith:YQISWUYG

pith:2014:YQISWUYGTKMQ2BYDKLHIRYF23K

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A New Paradigm for Minimax Search

Arie de Bruin, Aske Plaat, Jonathan Schaeffer, Wim Pijls

arxiv:1404.1515 v1 · 2014-04-05 · cs.AI

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YQISWUYGTKMQ2BYDKLHIRYF23K}

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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	2026-05-18T02:54:46.102011Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c4112b53069a990d070352ce88e0bada8ab69c9e8e911da54be59e77a1f5f152

Aliases

arxiv: 1404.1515 · arxiv_version: 1404.1515v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1404.1515 · pith_short_12: YQISWUYGTKMQ · pith_short_16: YQISWUYGTKMQ2BYD · pith_short_8: YQISWUYG

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/YQISWUYGTKMQ2BYDKLHIRYF23K \
  | 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: c4112b53069a990d070352ce88e0bada8ab69c9e8e911da54be59e77a1f5f152

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e8bc823712e59cbb71c9e04acf179d1c71e857708b4449c2cf89b40490b5c2fd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2014-04-05T20:05:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0c359d4b7d46474e8e15ae8d2494dd1250b2c6d1061309c67a7513c8f9f7113c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1404.1515",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}