Pith Number

pith:G2UJZKBT

pith:2016:G2UJZKBT7SWAJWRS3H5ROZ3B3S

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Vector Gaussian Rate-Distortion with Variable Side Information

Aaron B. Wagner, Sinem Unal

arxiv:1612.03455 v1 · 2016-12-11 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{G2UJZKBT7SWAJWRS3H5ROZ3B3S}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T00:55:19.179637Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

36a89ca833fcac04da32d9fb176761dcac195e1e8b22cdbc56c5321019c8bfe9

Aliases

arxiv: 1612.03455 · arxiv_version: 1612.03455v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1612.03455 · pith_short_12: G2UJZKBT7SWA · pith_short_16: G2UJZKBT7SWAJWRS · pith_short_8: G2UJZKBT

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/G2UJZKBT7SWAJWRS3H5ROZ3B3S \
  | 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: 36a89ca833fcac04da32d9fb176761dcac195e1e8b22cdbc56c5321019c8bfe9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "05ab5584c424863b14c931d0a75599492dd9ff6a2a2e1372358ada95f5636e22",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2016-12-11T19:15:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "671a1d4b8bc27b945df32beb6cd0757c9dee8bb16f088b4d9078a282488dbd74"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1612.03455",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}