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pith:FJCL6REN

pith:2016:FJCL6RENY36DEHZ7IH3OFW24XY
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The benefit of a 1-bit jump-start, and the necessity of stochastic encoding, in jamming channels

Anand D. Sarwate, Bikash Kumar Dey, Michael Langberg, Sidharth Jaggi

arxiv:1602.02384 v1 · 2016-02-07 · cs.IT · cs.CR · math.IT

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\pithnumber{FJCL6RENY36DEHZ7IH3OFW24XY}

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First computed 2026-05-18T01:21:10.158423Z
Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature Pith Ed25519 (pith-v1-2026-05) · public key
Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2a44bf448dc6fc321f3f41f6e2db5cbe373e4164aa103ec50d1e80914adf7d32

Aliases

arxiv: 1602.02384 · arxiv_version: 1602.02384v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1602.02384 · pith_short_12: FJCL6RENY36D · pith_short_16: FJCL6RENY36DEHZ7 · pith_short_8: FJCL6REN
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/FJCL6RENY36DEHZ7IH3OFW24XY \
  | 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: 2a44bf448dc6fc321f3f41f6e2db5cbe373e4164aa103ec50d1e80914adf7d32
Canonical record JSON
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2016-02-07T15:34:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a71ec9145370cabf8739a4ab8c9f96cf188576742fe5e412b594f4945ed35391"
  },
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  "source": {
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  }
}