Pith Number

pith:5VE2M4BI

pith:2017:5VE2M4BIEKURCJSGSGEKWCEN2O

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Product Matrix Minimum Storage Regenerating Codes with Flexible Number of Helpers

Ashish Khisti, Kaveh Mahdaviani, Soheil Mohajer

arxiv:1708.06012 v2 · 2017-08-20 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5VE2M4BIEKURCJSGSGEKWCEN2O}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T00:27:04.543227Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ed49a6702822a91126469188ab088dd3ac16ca3ee568c3e306a6fad049d3d216

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.06012 · arxiv_version: 1708.06012v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.06012 · pith_short_12: 5VE2M4BIEKUR · pith_short_16: 5VE2M4BIEKURCJSG · pith_short_8: 5VE2M4BI

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/5VE2M4BIEKURCJSGSGEKWCEN2O \
  | 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: ed49a6702822a91126469188ab088dd3ac16ca3ee568c3e306a6fad049d3d216

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2946d1ad1772d9ef25d3e6ebec468954dc61af84350c67f4cf75fa8bd9648d67",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-20T19:56:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e0a18adb59c85fabdc32406a0781aa632fe11dc4d48209e71d4cdcb7c0800e1d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.06012",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}