Pith Number

pith:26PKXIAN

pith:2016:26PKXIANXSARVE74WFMCBLNHTK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Near-Optimal Finite-Length Scaling for Polar Codes over Large Alphabets

Henry D. Pfister, R\"udiger Urbanke

arxiv:1605.01997 v2 · 2016-05-06 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{26PKXIANXSARVE74WFMCBLNHTK}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:31:24.017517Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d79eaba00dbc811a93fcb15820ada79ab94ab051a07066aae364b2a6f305fe77

Aliases

arxiv: 1605.01997 · arxiv_version: 1605.01997v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1605.01997 · pith_short_12: 26PKXIANXSAR · pith_short_16: 26PKXIANXSARVE74 · pith_short_8: 26PKXIAN

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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/26PKXIANXSARVE74WFMCBLNHTK \
  | 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: d79eaba00dbc811a93fcb15820ada79ab94ab051a07066aae364b2a6f305fe77

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0a0adc760d847f01d8104a773703525872a19ec72b1bd4356898f796e63e108f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2016-05-06T16:30:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7a3f0371d47de896543635efe9510f705d6afecda21c7d745f899983384b1c2e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1605.01997",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}