Pith Number

pith:GIWDASIJ

pith:2012:GIWDASIJOWVWLMVOUAP5HLUUUX

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The Limitation of Random Network Coding

Yuan Li

arxiv:1210.1915 v1 · 2012-10-06 · cs.IT · cs.NI · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GIWDASIJOWVWLMVOUAP5HLUUUX}

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First computed	2026-05-18T03:43:51.614437Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

322c30490975ab65b2aea01fd3ae94a5d786a7874c9f27fb084af5b97c39b3b0

Aliases

arxiv: 1210.1915 · arxiv_version: 1210.1915v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1210.1915 · pith_short_12: GIWDASIJOWVW · pith_short_16: GIWDASIJOWVWLMVO · pith_short_8: GIWDASIJ

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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/GIWDASIJOWVWLMVOUAP5HLUUUX \
  | 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: 322c30490975ab65b2aea01fd3ae94a5d786a7874c9f27fb084af5b97c39b3b0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ad4fd45fd5cad3899b3f9bc79dbe3627e0deabab9751165b11f6d4e63119db2e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.NI",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2012-10-06T06:26:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "620c77f437d35513514227f6ed0d1943a9cfa899c774e39817c6dc651fcacbf1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1210.1915",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}