Pith Number

pith:E4ZXUEV6

pith:2012:E4ZXUEV6ZP6Z6FOVYERT2JMAKU

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A Graph Theoretical Approach to Network Encoding Complexity

Guangyue Han, Li Xu, Weiping Shang

arxiv:1202.0747 v2 · 2012-02-03 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{E4ZXUEV6ZP6Z6FOVYERT2JMAKU}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T03:36:56.684805Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

27337a12becbfd9f15d5c1233d2580552b8cd7046b9c7669e487397b4319f4a7

Aliases

arxiv: 1202.0747 · arxiv_version: 1202.0747v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1202.0747 · pith_short_12: E4ZXUEV6ZP6Z · pith_short_16: E4ZXUEV6ZP6Z6FOV · pith_short_8: E4ZXUEV6

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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/E4ZXUEV6ZP6Z6FOVYERT2JMAKU \
  | 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: 27337a12becbfd9f15d5c1233d2580552b8cd7046b9c7669e487397b4319f4a7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d8e6315c0a3a8bd44b177d7376eac1249148b02840e0f6b4dea63de259625b38",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2012-02-03T16:10:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "00dab520318264eb4d0b7d2ab0620d565620ed3721605e93a4988284f872cdfb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1202.0747",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}