Pith Number

pith:CMH576DH

pith:2010:CMH576DHDTYZ6GCQYSCOQMPKHP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Impossibility of independence amplification in Kolmogorov complexity theory

Marius Zimand

arxiv:1006.0701 v1 · 2010-06-03 · cs.CC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CMH576DHDTYZ6GCQYSCOQMPKHP}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:07:05.172378Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

130fdff8671cf19f1850c484e831ea3bead3acd128300505d649098616881dc6

Aliases

arxiv: 1006.0701 · arxiv_version: 1006.0701v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1006.0701 · pith_short_12: CMH576DHDTYZ · pith_short_16: CMH576DHDTYZ6GCQ · pith_short_8: CMH576DH

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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/CMH576DHDTYZ6GCQYSCOQMPKHP \
  | 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: 130fdff8671cf19f1850c484e831ea3bead3acd128300505d649098616881dc6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c86e28d2a2f7f93a86ac99f6dcf3b8ee5a789ab20ecc577daf20ce4255160374",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CC",
    "submitted_at": "2010-06-03T17:31:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e009ba194ba7dab13a799d078d94229d1caa3b6413c6f6a4e33066e6ca841748"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1006.0701",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}