Pith Number

pith:6LN4TY2J

pith:2017:6LN4TY2JBFHY6DUNBUSEA7Y4Z5

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The Dispersion of Mismatched Joint Source-Channel Coding for Arbitrary Sources and Additive Channels

Lin Zhou, Mehul Motani, Vincent Y. F. Tan

arxiv:1711.11206 v2 · 2017-11-30 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\pithnumber{6LN4TY2JBFHY6DUNBUSEA7Y4Z5}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:06:46.414789Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f2dbc9e349094f8f0e8d0d24407f1ccf69eb06d643327e8459585db75da9bc16

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.11206 · arxiv_version: 1711.11206v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.11206 · pith_short_12: 6LN4TY2JBFHY · pith_short_16: 6LN4TY2JBFHY6DUN · pith_short_8: 6LN4TY2J

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/6LN4TY2JBFHY6DUNBUSEA7Y4Z5 \
  | 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: f2dbc9e349094f8f0e8d0d24407f1ccf69eb06d643327e8459585db75da9bc16

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5430081c43d42c8f692e46153f557cd482e5d04aa7b4b2538f8e108e857f7c73",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-30T03:38:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ff31f2c61524254975a36251cacd88c7f310dd687ddfbd3bc05e7c1aff861fd2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.11206",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}