Pith Number

pith:AUSSW2J6

pith:2012:AUSSW2J6VOCEBAB74RWWKJ3OAJ

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Relative Information Loss - An Introduction

Bernhard C. Geiger, Gernot Kubin

arxiv:1203.6791 v1 · 2012-03-30 · cs.IT · math.IT

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AUSSW2J6VOCEBAB74RWWKJ3OAJ}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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	2026-05-18T03:58:52.258055Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

05252b693eab8440803fe46d65276e026e85d384be4ae74736bfe11f6fdab950

Aliases

arxiv: 1203.6791 · arxiv_version: 1203.6791v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1203.6791 · pith_short_12: AUSSW2J6VOCE · pith_short_16: AUSSW2J6VOCEBAB7 · pith_short_8: AUSSW2J6

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/AUSSW2J6VOCEBAB74RWWKJ3OAJ \
  | 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: 05252b693eab8440803fe46d65276e026e85d384be4ae74736bfe11f6fdab950

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ce0b387c5d952cf0e3a0df32f66bdf99ef06636e38964d632f23bd0d5f262c39",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2012-03-30T12:49:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ef447daadfbfd7f41bda98045e9283eb3fc5ee6113f24b30f7560bed0ded22bd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1203.6791",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}