Pith Number

pith:6ZL3HLVZ

pith:2014:6ZL3HLVZA65DKNRWDFRPCB4XOQ

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Quasi-linear Network Coding

Moshe Schwartz, Muriel M\'edard

arxiv:1405.2458 v1 · 2014-05-10 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6ZL3HLVZA65DKNRWDFRPCB4XOQ}

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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	2026-05-18T02:52:05.466837Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f657b3aeb907ba3536361962f107977432da1f83a87bae6056ce86d9a7781c21

Aliases

arxiv: 1405.2458 · arxiv_version: 1405.2458v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1405.2458 · pith_short_12: 6ZL3HLVZA65D · pith_short_16: 6ZL3HLVZA65DKNRW · pith_short_8: 6ZL3HLVZ

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/6ZL3HLVZA65DKNRWDFRPCB4XOQ \
  | 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: f657b3aeb907ba3536361962f107977432da1f83a87bae6056ce86d9a7781c21

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "06dc1a4445fb7fc6e40344b43c441902a07a5ef697d3dd928123128dec7188d0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2014-05-10T18:23:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "be939a3453183a602a3a3fd0c13b0ebdded255e72381bf473686eec37efe7852"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1405.2458",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}