Pith Number

pith:5MB7MQHS

pith:2006:5MB7MQHS22E24XDL3DONMNRD3U

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A New Data Processing Inequality and Its Applications in Distributed Source and Channel Coding

S. Ulukus, W. Kang

arxiv:cs/0611017 v1 · 2006-11-03 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\pithnumber{5MB7MQHS22E24XDL3DONMNRD3U}

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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	2026-05-18T00:57:44.995266Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

eb03f640f2d689ae5c6bd8dcd63623dd0c495ce47c2c030ce9fd77daf4c0f553

Aliases

arxiv: cs/0611017 · arxiv_version: cs/0611017v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cs/0611017 · pith_short_12: 5MB7MQHS22E2 · pith_short_16: 5MB7MQHS22E24XDL · pith_short_8: 5MB7MQHS

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/5MB7MQHS22E24XDL3DONMNRD3U \
  | 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: eb03f640f2d689ae5c6bd8dcd63623dd0c495ce47c2c030ce9fd77daf4c0f553

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2f46073e24ad16944bb53da1ae0de261ce3e05c022baf5b6c1816fc642a43899",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2006-11-03T21:09:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2d828382c396724a88a39001fad6a32800faae9a5b56d48dced23710f5cbcfce"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "cs/0611017",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}