Pith Number

pith:GYRHWEAF

pith:2024:GYRHWEAFCYARYN2ALAS4G6AXTA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Finding the root in random nearest neighbor trees

Anna Brandenberger, Cassandra Marcussen, Elchanan Mossel, Madhu Sudan

arxiv:2411.14336 v1 · 2024-11-21 · math.PR · cs.DS · cs.SI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GYRHWEAFCYARYN2ALAS4G6AXTA}

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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	2026-07-05T09:38:45.299386Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

36227b100516011c37405825c37817980bd96f052b4374ea6817f52cbb9fbff3

Aliases

arxiv: 2411.14336 · arxiv_version: 2411.14336v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2411.14336 · pith_short_12: GYRHWEAFCYAR · pith_short_16: GYRHWEAFCYARYN2A · pith_short_8: GYRHWEAF

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/GYRHWEAFCYARYN2ALAS4G6AXTA \
  | 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: 36227b100516011c37405825c37817980bd96f052b4374ea6817f52cbb9fbff3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c2b8413f0fb7a9738c5247522b73afd2de7be239d10ae1643499096bcbc70acd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS",
      "cs.SI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2024-11-21T17:30:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9830835814c3d560455a2dd54f671b9cf413d152b1cd6dd730e066b4616463f3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2411.14336",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}