Pith Number

pith:B7X6K3O4

pith:2016:B7X6K3O4LZN2ULKJEAE6H7LRF6

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Pattern Coding Meets Censoring: (almost) Adaptive Coding on Countable Alphabets

Anna Ben-Hamou, Elisabeth Gassiat, Stephane Boucheron

arxiv:1608.08367 v2 · 2016-08-30 · cs.IT · math.IT · math.ST · stat.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{B7X6K3O4LZN2ULKJEAE6H7LRF6}

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-18T01:06:28.297607Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0fefe56ddc5e5baa2d492009e3fd712f88707b8a0d148147f3d0a0d51e7ae8b4

Aliases

arxiv: 1608.08367 · arxiv_version: 1608.08367v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1608.08367 · pith_short_12: B7X6K3O4LZN2 · pith_short_16: B7X6K3O4LZN2ULKJ · pith_short_8: B7X6K3O4

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/B7X6K3O4LZN2ULKJEAE6H7LRF6 \
  | 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: 0fefe56ddc5e5baa2d492009e3fd712f88707b8a0d148147f3d0a0d51e7ae8b4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "228f9d62383832700a8d1f039acbb07e21f8c80b750b167e1a3554b3ef2446d5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT",
      "math.ST",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2016-08-30T08:46:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "104356a3fb78024a0095cf0b890ae1ea2291aec550ea1f853f9c9afa02de8fe5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1608.08367",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}