Pith Number

pith:65BK7VLD

pith:2015:65BK7VLDTMVVY2BLA5E3XKAUKT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Faulty Successive Cancellation Decoding of Polar Codes for the Binary Erasure Channel

Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming, Andreas Burg

arxiv:1505.05404 v3 · 2015-05-20 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\pithnumber{65BK7VLDTMVVY2BLA5E3XKAUKT}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:30:55.653941Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f742afd5639b2b5c682b0749bba81454e618c354ba9f1d5b3e955a7d806ade76

Aliases

arxiv: 1505.05404 · arxiv_version: 1505.05404v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1505.05404 · pith_short_12: 65BK7VLDTMVV · pith_short_16: 65BK7VLDTMVVY2BL · pith_short_8: 65BK7VLD

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/65BK7VLDTMVVY2BLA5E3XKAUKT \
  | 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: f742afd5639b2b5c682b0749bba81454e618c354ba9f1d5b3e955a7d806ade76

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c6101f7b9281562f0e5db028f4ab049b747bd682dede8572a1782d61a990036d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2015-05-20T14:42:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bf12d797dbfc9b4f31584181a128d7749f380f65a1b5171fe039e22d2a64dbe8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1505.05404",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}