Pith Number

pith:2QTSZPH6

pith:2004:2QTSZPH6OFIFIZK475BIUM6CDX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Source Coding With Distortion Side Information At The Encoder

Emin Martinian, Gregory W. Wornell, Ram Zamir

arxiv:cs/0408062 v1 · 2004-08-27 · cs.IT · math.IT

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2QTSZPH6OFIFIZK475BIUM6CDX}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T02:37:36.951467Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d4272cbcfe715054655cff428a33c21de84a048038e30c2a11a4be738fa7a7a8

Aliases

arxiv: cs/0408062 · arxiv_version: cs/0408062v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cs/0408062 · pith_short_12: 2QTSZPH6OFIF · pith_short_16: 2QTSZPH6OFIFIZK4 · pith_short_8: 2QTSZPH6

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/2QTSZPH6OFIFIZK475BIUM6CDX \
  | 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: d4272cbcfe715054655cff428a33c21de84a048038e30c2a11a4be738fa7a7a8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "87bbad9f72cc7bf4625a15e8a4f75166989481e40399176cd527b7d12d1b6682",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2004-08-27T14:25:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8268e70f3bd9a3f8f9992c8d0c81d63c7eafe6b31686bcce09f3ad82f4c10faf"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "cs/0408062",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}