Pith Number

pith:5M6X2X4M

pith:2014:5M6X2X4MJWRBTH4EAVSY4VR7AH

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Convolutional Codes in Rank Metric with Application to Random Network Coding

Antonia Wachter-Zeh, Markus Stinner, Vladimir Sidorenko

arxiv:1404.7251 v2 · 2014-04-29 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\pithnumber{5M6X2X4MJWRBTH4EAVSY4VR7AH}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:58:11.749020Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

eb3d7d5f8c4da2199f8405658e563f01c879866af396ba5c109a10c8ea1793ef

Aliases

arxiv: 1404.7251 · arxiv_version: 1404.7251v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1404.7251 · pith_short_12: 5M6X2X4MJWRB · pith_short_16: 5M6X2X4MJWRBTH4E · pith_short_8: 5M6X2X4M

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/5M6X2X4MJWRBTH4EAVSY4VR7AH \
  | 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: eb3d7d5f8c4da2199f8405658e563f01c879866af396ba5c109a10c8ea1793ef

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "44bfc7cc653250efa8a358bc48b01f7d6d9b44f06c6b3e75da9bb78ec3a7787b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2014-04-29T06:37:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "173385c24f2973b9393c6e379262d6e2cc1493855ccebc7d443767a8fb8d79aa"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1404.7251",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}