Pith Number

pith:ZAXM6UCG

pith:2012:ZAXM6UCG3KFX6EMWOURLQKGUPR

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An Alignment Algorithm for Sequences

Sandeep Hosangadi, Subhash Kak

arxiv:1210.8398 v1 · 2012-10-31 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZAXM6UCG3KFX6EMWOURLQKGUPR}

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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	2026-05-18T03:41:44.632536Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c82ecf5046da8b7f11967522b828d47c6f5584dde5100dcaee56abff88bb6163

Aliases

arxiv: 1210.8398 · arxiv_version: 1210.8398v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1210.8398 · pith_short_12: ZAXM6UCG3KFX · pith_short_16: ZAXM6UCG3KFX6EMW · pith_short_8: ZAXM6UCG

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/ZAXM6UCG3KFX6EMWOURLQKGUPR \
  | 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: c82ecf5046da8b7f11967522b828d47c6f5584dde5100dcaee56abff88bb6163

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fba357fca7f83c83b7918560c9f02fb5c474860b1ba5555306a87270aeabaa4a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2012-10-31T17:08:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "252734e118a56885c86329cbd714cf762795af0e6bb5adf5680e15cbc5a63965"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1210.8398",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}