Pith Number

pith:6KTZOV37

pith:2012:6KTZOV374QKANJHVYQPGCIPLOX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Efficiently decoding strings from their shingles

Ari Trachtenberg, Aryeh Kontorovich

arxiv:1204.3293 v1 · 2012-04-15 · cs.DM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6KTZOV374QKANJHVYQPGCIPLOX}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T03:57:51.905410Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f2a797577fe41406a4f5c41e6121eb75fe4c7526b82e50134c4c56c6d164e7b1

Aliases

arxiv: 1204.3293 · arxiv_version: 1204.3293v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1204.3293 · pith_short_12: 6KTZOV374QKA · pith_short_16: 6KTZOV374QKANJHV · pith_short_8: 6KTZOV37

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/6KTZOV374QKANJHVYQPGCIPLOX \
  | 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: f2a797577fe41406a4f5c41e6121eb75fe4c7526b82e50134c4c56c6d164e7b1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "59646562aa4e63932b04b271ad425ca55b704e3c33430acd8d5e7abcde0d3a0b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DM",
    "submitted_at": "2012-04-15T16:59:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ac8c43c7701bdf97c6c45eb0efd1892ba8adb1b2829ecc9873108cc1f1695f8a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1204.3293",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}