Pith Number

pith:6Z27BUXP

pith:2016:6Z27BUXPI6FTK5AFKF2YFJKRIH

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Linear Network Coding over Rings, Part I: Scalar Codes and Commutative Alphabets

Joseph Connelly, Kenneth Zeger

arxiv:1608.01738 v2 · 2016-08-05 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6Z27BUXPI6FTK5AFKF2YFJKRIH}

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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	2026-05-18T00:24:54.499831Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f675f0d2ef478b357405517582a55141ce3ac4520230a79ab488c7a9df862209

Aliases

arxiv: 1608.01738 · arxiv_version: 1608.01738v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1608.01738 · pith_short_12: 6Z27BUXPI6FT · pith_short_16: 6Z27BUXPI6FTK5AF · pith_short_8: 6Z27BUXP

Agent API

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/6Z27BUXPI6FTK5AFKF2YFJKRIH \
  | 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: f675f0d2ef478b357405517582a55141ce3ac4520230a79ab488c7a9df862209

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2ede7fcdde47306c1648e9cb3fc71964dcb07c8c8fe445b14aea1d1053505369",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2016-08-05T01:52:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c2ce21ad9601bdae8737a6ab4c10a9c5d64d11097be1fd5c5e2252da4e52ca81"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1608.01738",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}