Pith Number

pith:DBK6D33W

pith:2017:DBK6D33WUS4IM7ZK2WKIFVZJ7Q

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Fountain Codes under Maximum Likelihood Decoding

Francisco L\'azaro

arxiv:1706.08739 v1 · 2017-06-27 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DBK6D33WUS4IM7ZK2WKIFVZJ7Q}

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Record completeness

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3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T00:41:31.172080Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1855e1ef76a4b8867f2ad59482d729fc024e0f131d32129d695283cff5ae06e6

Aliases

arxiv: 1706.08739 · arxiv_version: 1706.08739v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1706.08739 · pith_short_12: DBK6D33WUS4I · pith_short_16: DBK6D33WUS4IM7ZK · pith_short_8: DBK6D33W

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/DBK6D33WUS4IM7ZK2WKIFVZJ7Q \
  | 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: 1855e1ef76a4b8867f2ad59482d729fc024e0f131d32129d695283cff5ae06e6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "635fee39a750d9cb7b4c3a3daf7c05677075b9c32ca28611cfab63fa44fc4e35",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-06-27T09:12:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "aa6cae7217c1e01ba6d24db4f1e0c368084899e644f53dd3c6f337ea4f775ac8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1706.08739",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}