Pith Number

pith:B4OJDRAF

pith:2015:B4OJDRAFQ3MD7NR57YP3LRUDTO

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Kolmogorov complexity version of Slepian-Wolf coding

Marius Zimand

arxiv:1511.03602 v3 · 2015-11-11 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{B4OJDRAFQ3MD7NR57YP3LRUDTO}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:50:57.626272Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0f1c91c40586d83fb63dfe1fb5c6839b957ae31bf81c9297fd28cbc8a5819396

Aliases

arxiv: 1511.03602 · arxiv_version: 1511.03602v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1511.03602 · pith_short_12: B4OJDRAFQ3MD · pith_short_16: B4OJDRAFQ3MD7NR5 · pith_short_8: B4OJDRAF

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/B4OJDRAFQ3MD7NR57YP3LRUDTO \
  | 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: 0f1c91c40586d83fb63dfe1fb5c6839b957ae31bf81c9297fd28cbc8a5819396

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "812fb8bf81b719ed48691219b27c2da4aed0d10d446a05dccec4e0cb3bc65c8b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2015-11-11T18:48:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9e2eafa3e08a08a678afeca7417b429cdd9894a6f6052562c364ae3c3aa53b52"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1511.03602",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}