Pith Number

pith:A2JV3HNU

pith:2015:A2JV3HNUZUAYV4ME2BZNXTHNJF

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A Number-Theoretic Error-Correcting Code

David Naccache, Diana Maimut, Eric Brier, Jean-S\'ebastien Coron, R\'emi G\'eraud

arxiv:1509.00378 v1 · 2015-09-01 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{A2JV3HNUZUAYV4ME2BZNXTHNJF}

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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	2026-05-18T01:34:14.247898Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

06935d9db4cd018af184d072dbcced4957c988d0f3a4e1bf91f7380d08bbe0cf

Aliases

arxiv: 1509.00378 · arxiv_version: 1509.00378v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1509.00378 · pith_short_12: A2JV3HNUZUAY · pith_short_16: A2JV3HNUZUAYV4ME · pith_short_8: A2JV3HNU

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/A2JV3HNUZUAYV4ME2BZNXTHNJF \
  | 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: 06935d9db4cd018af184d072dbcced4957c988d0f3a4e1bf91f7380d08bbe0cf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f0c9fee8b591de42126ebacfe4e7e4864f85579ea89a6b61af6bf243fe932092",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2015-09-01T16:24:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3fbd157d3446a513f2c6005c88416fe51bc335958764a2e80ab58f9c52191748"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1509.00378",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}