Pith Number

pith:G4WBOSIU

pith:2014:G4WBOSIU3KXVPLYJOHOA55LDSM

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"Information-Friction" and its implications on minimum energy required for communication

Pulkit Grover

arxiv:1401.1059 v2 · 2014-01-06 · cs.IT · cs.CC · math-ph · math.IT · math.MP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{G4WBOSIU3KXVPLYJOHOA55LDSM}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T00:59:03.463297Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

372c174914daaf57af0971dc0ef563933c7ab8592640a0979bf08405232c11ca

Aliases

arxiv: 1401.1059 · arxiv_version: 1401.1059v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1401.1059 · pith_short_12: G4WBOSIU3KXV · pith_short_16: G4WBOSIU3KXVPLYJ · pith_short_8: G4WBOSIU

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/G4WBOSIU3KXVPLYJOHOA55LDSM \
  | 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: 372c174914daaf57af0971dc0ef563933c7ab8592640a0979bf08405232c11ca

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "62734ddc2840580da8426ac94acbf086f137bdf96561e32daa87bc2432f46315",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CC",
      "math-ph",
      "math.IT",
      "math.MP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2014-01-06T12:34:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "db45b508409606597e7b718b1bbcc11c08bbd97df3a8187c9b41039d05ea9868"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1401.1059",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}