Pith Number

pith:EEDIIXSG

pith:2018:EEDIIXSGBGF7QSYBO5AARVG3D5

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Erasure Codes for Distributed Storage: Tight Bounds and Matching Constructions

P. Vijay Kumar, S.B. Balaji

arxiv:1806.04474 v1 · 2018-06-12 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EEDIIXSGBGF7QSYBO5AARVG3D5}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:13:35.391557Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2106845e46098bf84b01774008d4db1f52287ca72271ca47c83b286ebe401ff4

Aliases

arxiv: 1806.04474 · arxiv_version: 1806.04474v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1806.04474 · pith_short_12: EEDIIXSGBGF7 · pith_short_16: EEDIIXSGBGF7QSYB · pith_short_8: EEDIIXSG

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/EEDIIXSGBGF7QSYBO5AARVG3D5 \
  | 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: 2106845e46098bf84b01774008d4db1f52287ca72271ca47c83b286ebe401ff4

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2e60ecef0e47e42df09378b61711be1c9fa3d0b20a0618769a7055166fe9e319",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2018-06-12T12:49:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f36f26cc9ceb81c2fa30e3fe2a11a5f39fec6c693f7f38caa3dc5f8a96800438"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1806.04474",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}