Pith Number

pith:26RHSQVY

pith:2014:26RHSQVYIZ6F6FSMBKOAZC6XLS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Asymptotics and Non-asymptotics for Universal Fixed-to-Variable Source Coding

Lalitha Sankar, Oliver Kosut

arxiv:1412.4444 v1 · 2014-12-15 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{26RHSQVYIZ6F6FSMBKOAZC6XLS}

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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	2026-05-18T02:31:19.183430Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d7a27942b8467c5f164c0a9c0c8bd75c9df16d6af4f76b1e77055cdc91b1b53b

Aliases

arxiv: 1412.4444 · arxiv_version: 1412.4444v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1412.4444 · pith_short_12: 26RHSQVYIZ6F · pith_short_16: 26RHSQVYIZ6F6FSM · pith_short_8: 26RHSQVY

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/26RHSQVYIZ6F6FSMBKOAZC6XLS \
  | 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: d7a27942b8467c5f164c0a9c0c8bd75c9df16d6af4f76b1e77055cdc91b1b53b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3d1612a93441c8901682f68bc9413813fa2b3f949203d225e3382c65be50c7e8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2014-12-15T01:43:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "035446bfc05363bfc3a36566381321be496554c255b811e9d93a1f6658154b0d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1412.4444",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}