Pith Number

pith:3XWFTT5O

pith:2014:3XWFTT5OG7AG4WS3ZQ4VEIKVU3

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Tight Bounds for Symmetric Divergence Measures and a Refined Bound for Lossless Source Coding

Igal Sason

arxiv:1403.7164 v7 · 2014-03-27 · cs.IT · math.IT · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3XWFTT5OG7AG4WS3ZQ4VEIKVU3}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:58:11.963889Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ddec59cfae37c06e5a5bcc39522155a6d81fc48b0f654fa019f82ebf3c80f32c

Aliases

arxiv: 1403.7164 · arxiv_version: 1403.7164v7 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1403.7164 · pith_short_12: 3XWFTT5OG7AG · pith_short_16: 3XWFTT5OG7AG4WS3 · pith_short_8: 3XWFTT5O

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/3XWFTT5OG7AG4WS3ZQ4VEIKVU3 \
  | 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: ddec59cfae37c06e5a5bcc39522155a6d81fc48b0f654fa019f82ebf3c80f32c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "79857a9e1f045fdd5c983576335a52e4c8ac5f97c92548cfc8ce604b38802da5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT",
      "math.PR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2014-03-27T18:39:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c73a188d2a663b1c1d7b7f7f557057985a61a497db4e102522ed35106b0bbbf9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1403.7164",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 7
  }
}