Pith Number

pith:C6TA5QTV

pith:2016:C6TA5QTVHM3WMUG5F57IA46PPE

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On empirical cumulant generating functions of code lengths for individual sequences

Neri Merhav

arxiv:1605.01182 v1 · 2016-05-04 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\pithnumber{C6TA5QTVHM3WMUG5F57IA46PPE}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:15:37.590025Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

17a60ec2753b376650dd2f7e8073cf793580949e8384d7c965100e91dd88dcca

Aliases

arxiv: 1605.01182 · arxiv_version: 1605.01182v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1605.01182 · pith_short_12: C6TA5QTVHM3W · pith_short_16: C6TA5QTVHM3WMUG5 · pith_short_8: C6TA5QTV

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/C6TA5QTVHM3WMUG5F57IA46PPE \
  | 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: 17a60ec2753b376650dd2f7e8073cf793580949e8384d7c965100e91dd88dcca

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ca31348634422aca32109aa15001c00b4447f1731d5b8749d27f4921a4adc2e9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2016-05-04T08:35:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3bfbb74e02e882010ee3a91b489096e80fd0bd252ef08b4f277cda4147328e1b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1605.01182",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}