Pith Number

pith:DOLCXT5E

pith:2017:DOLCXT5EEGFPKHPMKQS4GUKMWC

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A Characterization of the Shannon Ordering of Communication Channels

Rajai Nasser

arxiv:1705.01394 v1 · 2017-05-03 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DOLCXT5EEGFPKHPMKQS4GUKMWC}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:45:05.267741Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1b962bcfa4218af51dec5425c3514cb0b7d91413d6032e353457daad6afea88f

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.01394 · arxiv_version: 1705.01394v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.01394 · pith_short_12: DOLCXT5EEGFP · pith_short_16: DOLCXT5EEGFPKHPM · pith_short_8: DOLCXT5E

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/DOLCXT5EEGFPKHPMKQS4GUKMWC \
  | 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: 1b962bcfa4218af51dec5425c3514cb0b7d91413d6032e353457daad6afea88f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5e0aa818c958cdc673c228497b87a17acc55adf37494368683836d6edd9d9398",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-03T12:57:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "063656934bde100491c9039ed2edcdfd3d7386f1b03fc6369e87d9078ad41b53"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.01394",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}