Pith Number

pith:5Z4NR7JO

pith:2010:5Z4NR7JOTKHJYUVQKEESEJOLT6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Linear tail-biting trellises: Characteristic generators and the BCJR-construction

Elizabeth Weaver, Heide Gluesing-Luerssen

arxiv:1003.4539 v1 · 2010-03-23 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5Z4NR7JOTKHJYUVQKEESEJOLT6}

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-18T04:31:13.116812Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ee78d8fd2e9a8e9c52b051092225cb9fbc4809f08b7895a25f9a412d086be985

Aliases

arxiv: 1003.4539 · arxiv_version: 1003.4539v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1003.4539 · pith_short_12: 5Z4NR7JOTKHJ · pith_short_16: 5Z4NR7JOTKHJYUVQ · pith_short_8: 5Z4NR7JO

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/5Z4NR7JOTKHJYUVQKEESEJOLT6 \
  | 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: ee78d8fd2e9a8e9c52b051092225cb9fbc4809f08b7895a25f9a412d086be985

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "80ec30a5b2b1b6fd7432e235b8c08de1d551602b88756289a579f2750e40772b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2010-03-23T21:38:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a710786eaca8d521dd04dc467f474832f0cba114b33c1d41de60da86bcc31c62"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1003.4539",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}