Pith Number

pith:G53G554Y

pith:2017:G53G554YEIXGJXBOFL3ZEWST5P

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Refined Asymptotics for Rate-Distortion using Gaussian Codebooks for Arbitrary Sources

Lin Zhou, Mehul Motani, Vincent Y. F. Tan

arxiv:1708.04778 v3 · 2017-08-16 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\pithnumber{G53G554YEIXGJXBOFL3ZEWST5P}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:06:48.467739Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

37766ef798222e64dc2e2af7925a53ebd95bbd111fa18a7c6ef29aeba1745ae8

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.04778 · arxiv_version: 1708.04778v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.04778 · pith_short_12: G53G554YEIXG · pith_short_16: G53G554YEIXGJXBO · pith_short_8: G53G554Y

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/G53G554YEIXGJXBOFL3ZEWST5P \
  | 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: 37766ef798222e64dc2e2af7925a53ebd95bbd111fa18a7c6ef29aeba1745ae8

Canonical record JSON

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    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9ebdc8cbbea0c1261255e7dd455b91f97153e606b8412ce873f03163efd73dfe",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-16T05:51:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6a7cfce56829f1df9df941c4feaf2f2ac9d04736fb17ac0ede9d2a8abfe5713c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
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  }
}