Pith Number

pith:BALK2ZJ4

pith:2011:BALK2ZJ4AWMGAH2T2LVTD7IDJM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Towards an Optimal Space-and-Query-Time Index for Top-k Document Retrieval

Rahul Shah, Sharma V. Thankachan, Wing-Kai Hon

arxiv:1108.0554 v2 · 2011-08-02 · cs.DS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BALK2ZJ4AWMGAH2T2LVTD7IDJM}

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-18T03:58:51.295568Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0816ad653c0598601f53d2eb31fd034b1558c2b35df2655c317e7a074b681f6a

Aliases

arxiv: 1108.0554 · arxiv_version: 1108.0554v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1108.0554 · pith_short_12: BALK2ZJ4AWMG · pith_short_16: BALK2ZJ4AWMGAH2T · pith_short_8: BALK2ZJ4

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BALK2ZJ4AWMGAH2T2LVTD7IDJM \
  | 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: 0816ad653c0598601f53d2eb31fd034b1558c2b35df2655c317e7a074b681f6a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9ab3f8de6e3a8e5a74398c159dcadc2ff20aa00e1e46a8044045f8f8849e75d9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2011-08-02T12:00:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a75ea51f4d819e2e24e2a1838b504bbad0ba40e3fc081cd505762d2964d2f31f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1108.0554",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}