Pith Number

pith:3MLAGNHU

pith:2012:3MLAGNHUJ46TOF4UPQN5Y7VJZC

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Linear Information Coupling Problems

Lizhong Zheng, Shao-Lun Huang

arxiv:1206.3612 v1 · 2012-06-15 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3MLAGNHUJ46TOF4UPQN5Y7VJZC}

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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	2026-05-18T03:53:19.333333Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

db160334f44f3d3717947c1bdc7ea9c8b145090c05b49d82d2974567715050c0

Aliases

arxiv: 1206.3612 · arxiv_version: 1206.3612v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1206.3612 · pith_short_12: 3MLAGNHUJ46T · pith_short_16: 3MLAGNHUJ46TOF4U · pith_short_8: 3MLAGNHU

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/3MLAGNHUJ46TOF4UPQN5Y7VJZC \
  | 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: db160334f44f3d3717947c1bdc7ea9c8b145090c05b49d82d2974567715050c0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3db058c1d31d143b4a1d0811a385281df33e9e5e7ce6bd61487bb2cca2a72a47",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2012-06-15T23:51:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0898944517e3f14f88f4b065f822c8f7d8ac8d7e72e9c4f8eb76ac5d6351e660"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1206.3612",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}