Pith Number

pith:BMCZQT43

pith:2008:BMCZQT43DHUVE3TNFITG3IMI5L

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Energy Scaling Laws for Distributed Inference in Random Fusion Networks

Ananthram Swami, Animashree Anandkumar, Joseph E. Yukich, Lang Tong

arxiv:0809.0686 v3 · 2008-09-03 · cs.IT · cs.NI · math.IT · math.ST · stat.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BMCZQT43DHUVE3TNFITG3IMI5L}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:58:48.392110Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0b05984f9b19e9526e6d2a266da188eadd46d0dae50b320880ef4be4b44b5cd8

Aliases

arxiv: 0809.0686 · arxiv_version: 0809.0686v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0809.0686 · pith_short_12: BMCZQT43DHUV · pith_short_16: BMCZQT43DHUVE3TN · pith_short_8: BMCZQT43

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BMCZQT43DHUVE3TNFITG3IMI5L \
  | 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: 0b05984f9b19e9526e6d2a266da188eadd46d0dae50b320880ef4be4b44b5cd8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "47b6cad7645ae31ef2dece57469e89987e91498dfe7c65b07544a5905ff41b79",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.NI",
      "math.IT",
      "math.ST",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2008-09-03T18:06:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c9955756af25b0f93db3fd7b93a11c886ba02b78c62e1abf9693341acf8b6c22"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0809.0686",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}