Pith Number

pith:5SGCHL6A

pith:2012:5SGCHL6A4ASYXTKMVEJPDQCJPC

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First-Passage Time and Large-Deviation Analysis for Erasure Channels with Memory

Henry D. Pfister, Jean-Francois Chamberland, Santhosh Kumar

arxiv:1208.3235 v2 · 2012-08-15 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\pithnumber{5SGCHL6A4ASYXTKMVEJPDQCJPC}

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First computed	2026-05-18T03:13:58.376270Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ec8c23afc0e0258bcd4ca912f1c04978a858dee5cfc03b996ac6ce50ace91616

Aliases

arxiv: 1208.3235 · arxiv_version: 1208.3235v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1208.3235 · pith_short_12: 5SGCHL6A4ASY · pith_short_16: 5SGCHL6A4ASYXTKM · pith_short_8: 5SGCHL6A

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/5SGCHL6A4ASYXTKMVEJPDQCJPC \
  | 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: ec8c23afc0e0258bcd4ca912f1c04978a858dee5cfc03b996ac6ce50ace91616

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "061c142a644c37a54340ec12bdcdffa4856a9a34a057faa44e742fceb9de38ca",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2012-08-15T22:11:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "15e016c7ef801e83e2b7be2b6807256765f487b64a338829d57a9a4ab43d4164"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1208.3235",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}