Pith Number

pith:AEAHQ3KN

pith:2016:AEAHQ3KNVCFMH3KUJUPXOIMBNX

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A Deterministic Algorithm for Pliable Index Coding

Christina Fragouli, Linqi Song

arxiv:1601.05516 v1 · 2016-01-21 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AEAHQ3KNVCFMH3KUJUPXOIMBNX}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T01:22:13.630486Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0100786d4da88ac3ed544d1f7721816dd43bb033acc9975cd68fdc6ff83418f8

Aliases

arxiv: 1601.05516 · arxiv_version: 1601.05516v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1601.05516 · pith_short_12: AEAHQ3KNVCFM · pith_short_16: AEAHQ3KNVCFMH3KU · pith_short_8: AEAHQ3KN

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/AEAHQ3KNVCFMH3KUJUPXOIMBNX \
  | 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: 0100786d4da88ac3ed544d1f7721816dd43bb033acc9975cd68fdc6ff83418f8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "35fd1828b87ad14bf3e1921555d5c54cc02cb810a4941d4afc83cc8226ce8ac8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2016-01-21T05:37:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "88e3a087ec12c8bcdb564682cf97992ca875bb8d588fde1750ec950345420e80"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1601.05516",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}