Pith Number

pith:2LUREHGL

pith:2017:2LUREHGLDGT4ZMVZEV5GQ6VLLQ

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The Power of Shared Randomness in Uncertain Communication

Badih Ghazi, Madhu Sudan

arxiv:1705.01082 v1 · 2017-05-02 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2LUREHGLDGT4ZMVZEV5GQ6VLLQ}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T00:45:08.962132Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d2e9121ccb19a7ccb2b9257a687aab5c226455d20faabc047295e69677d5770d

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.01082 · arxiv_version: 1705.01082v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.01082 · pith_short_12: 2LUREHGLDGT4 · pith_short_16: 2LUREHGLDGT4ZMVZ · pith_short_8: 2LUREHGL

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/2LUREHGLDGT4ZMVZEV5GQ6VLLQ \
  | 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: d2e9121ccb19a7ccb2b9257a687aab5c226455d20faabc047295e69677d5770d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ff1b29b87518a320da6ef92336eb91cb42cf8063b960426cd4febdda452db9e6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-02T17:25:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2d235b77bc07a4ef6896c4d6932dd4bec2353a08a45771a8d73acbdec8d7de4f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.01082",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}