Pith Number

pith:5PGZAU4Z

pith:2016:5PGZAU4ZCWQUXQJZCGCITPOCX3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

An Achievable Rate-Distortion Region for Multiple Descriptions Source Coding Based on Coset Codes

Farhad Shirani, S. Sandeep Pradhan

arxiv:1602.01911 v1 · 2016-02-05 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5PGZAU4ZCWQUXQJZCGCITPOCX3}

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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	2026-05-18T01:21:15.065921Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ebcd90539915a14bc139118489bdc2bef2560a8a77035f3fdd2b9cb35ebf1ddb

Aliases

arxiv: 1602.01911 · arxiv_version: 1602.01911v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1602.01911 · pith_short_12: 5PGZAU4ZCWQU · pith_short_16: 5PGZAU4ZCWQUXQJZ · pith_short_8: 5PGZAU4Z

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/5PGZAU4ZCWQUXQJZCGCITPOCX3 \
  | 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: ebcd90539915a14bc139118489bdc2bef2560a8a77035f3fdd2b9cb35ebf1ddb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bb05c8e52d0a2383e1ab330ba308095cf9046769ac9a371d5af07420be9c2f39",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2016-02-05T02:32:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "02efac35c5e614ca08d66758e4c29e1231c099bded8bb55c5a3b932c58c65c7a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1602.01911",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}