Pith Number

pith:FFX7G24W

pith:2015:FFX7G24WZBGBCUSMYPWABBXJWP

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A Large Deviations Approach to Secure Lossy Compression

Neri Merhav, Nir Weinberger

arxiv:1504.05756 v1 · 2015-04-22 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FFX7G24WZBGBCUSMYPWABBXJWP}

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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	2026-05-18T00:58:35.757165Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

296ff36b96c84c11524cc3ec0086e9b3c2afd29a96141dd44971267bb5dcbf09

Aliases

arxiv: 1504.05756 · arxiv_version: 1504.05756v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1504.05756 · pith_short_12: FFX7G24WZBGB · pith_short_16: FFX7G24WZBGBCUSM · pith_short_8: FFX7G24W

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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/FFX7G24WZBGBCUSMYPWABBXJWP \
  | 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: 296ff36b96c84c11524cc3ec0086e9b3c2afd29a96141dd44971267bb5dcbf09

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "96fbd72d30f5d32116e73f2ec462980843fc610df67ba0202f94ab38e98e984d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2015-04-22T12:27:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1c0532b18e7e542e4fa5fa85305d16679af1320b9aec8f49e73985900ae6ac9c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1504.05756",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}