Pith Number

pith:KUR4KLFX

pith:2017:KUR4KLFX2AES52OZYUSEINM3NK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Direct Positioning with Channel Database Assistance

Arkady Molev-Shteiman, Laurence Mailaender, Xiao-Feng Qi

arxiv:1712.07148 v1 · 2017-12-19 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KUR4KLFX2AES52OZYUSEINM3NK}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T00:27:35.465908Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5523c52cb7d0092ee9d9c52444359b6a936d7720d614f22d6c00396897249e2f

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.07148 · arxiv_version: 1712.07148v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.07148 · pith_short_12: KUR4KLFX2AES · pith_short_16: KUR4KLFX2AES52OZ · pith_short_8: KUR4KLFX

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/KUR4KLFX2AES52OZYUSEINM3NK \
  | 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: 5523c52cb7d0092ee9d9c52444359b6a936d7720d614f22d6c00396897249e2f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0ba138832ef03c82f4bad64de17bdd3d3e93a1a33298d07af37629953d08539a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-19T19:05:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "64a4448823c0e29f6f3cdf722ad0ce33163c8d3a8521c9814cf79e7dd5f3a764"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.07148",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}