Pith Number

pith:7JC6MQLK

pith:2016:7JC6MQLKVLMNDSYWD2C4YXZ4FT

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Duality between erasures and defects

B. V. K. Vijaya Kumar, Yongjune Kim

arxiv:1602.03536 v1 · 2016-02-10 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7JC6MQLKVLMNDSYWD2C4YXZ4FT}

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Record completeness

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3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T00:21:46.897325Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fa45e6416aaad8d1cb161e85cc5f3c2cdf60819e2be80d2f253c43a76631604b

Aliases

arxiv: 1602.03536 · arxiv_version: 1602.03536v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1602.03536 · pith_short_12: 7JC6MQLKVLMN · pith_short_16: 7JC6MQLKVLMNDSYW · pith_short_8: 7JC6MQLK

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/7JC6MQLKVLMNDSYWD2C4YXZ4FT \
  | 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: fa45e6416aaad8d1cb161e85cc5f3c2cdf60819e2be80d2f253c43a76631604b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5f8af6493b212f2e8be0ff0cc52e4f2be3a24ba70d2927bbe8d80a08c726856f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2016-02-10T21:09:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7d34476c60899670e4b130fc618e88e85f1900d96155f929213eb3241cfccd9f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1602.03536",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}