Pith Number

pith:BJATUNR5

pith:2013:BJATUNR5KPFICSNTSXZ5BGZPUU

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Wyner's Common Information: Generalizations and A New Lossy Source Coding Interpretation

Biao Chen, Ge Xu, Wei Liu

arxiv:1301.2237 v1 · 2013-01-10 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BJATUNR5KPFICSNTSXZ5BGZPUU}

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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	2026-05-18T03:36:47.024431Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0a413a363d53ca8149b395f3d09b2fa525b8cdd5520682e2978d97da16027239

Aliases

arxiv: 1301.2237 · arxiv_version: 1301.2237v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1301.2237 · pith_short_12: BJATUNR5KPFI · pith_short_16: BJATUNR5KPFICSNT · pith_short_8: BJATUNR5

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BJATUNR5KPFICSNTSXZ5BGZPUU \
  | 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: 0a413a363d53ca8149b395f3d09b2fa525b8cdd5520682e2978d97da16027239

Canonical record JSON

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    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e8a49548d06a997e28434d4de6dba3a142cbd766708a1b6c1567821ce2257e3c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2013-01-10T20:12:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d87801d116e69c03af96a0e81d76af06aa029e28b98b42332c25282a7b8054b6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}