Pith Number

pith:6LUZHBQV

pith:2011:6LUZHBQVLBRHFXIPNVG7VREIBD

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On generic erasure correcting sets and related problems

Harout Aydinian, Rudolf Ahlswede

arxiv:1108.1161 v1 · 2011-08-04 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6LUZHBQVLBRHFXIPNVG7VREIBD}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T04:16:12.578826Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f2e9938615586272dd0f6d4dfac48808fe582ebb58f9662f5c39c9ef19fc6672

Aliases

arxiv: 1108.1161 · arxiv_version: 1108.1161v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1108.1161 · pith_short_12: 6LUZHBQVLBRH · pith_short_16: 6LUZHBQVLBRHFXIP · pith_short_8: 6LUZHBQV

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/6LUZHBQVLBRHFXIPNVG7VREIBD \
  | 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: f2e9938615586272dd0f6d4dfac48808fe582ebb58f9662f5c39c9ef19fc6672

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3d20919854c268420c434fb76c0dd4b89a11791af5b36ba9ba405be0cbec6f77",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2011-08-04T18:32:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4ff6fef743907c74314a01cac007f425238884cbd03681a822bf530cfde94ab4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1108.1161",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}