Pith Number

pith:H74SOSRP

pith:2013:H74SOSRPAGERLWFY6TYLHL2PS3

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List decoding - random coding exponents and expurgated exponents

Neri Merhav

arxiv:1311.7298 v1 · 2013-11-28 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{H74SOSRPAGERLWFY6TYLHL2PS3}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:58:16.576289Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3ff9274a2f018915d8b8f4f0b3af4f96f4c7ebcee846f137e0c3f33ebc56bd74

Aliases

arxiv: 1311.7298 · arxiv_version: 1311.7298v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1311.7298 · pith_short_12: H74SOSRPAGER · pith_short_16: H74SOSRPAGERLWFY · pith_short_8: H74SOSRP

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/H74SOSRPAGERLWFY6TYLHL2PS3 \
  | 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: 3ff9274a2f018915d8b8f4f0b3af4f96f4c7ebcee846f137e0c3f33ebc56bd74

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cd865b02dcd1f57a3b4d4beaa7a7f3b8e572ffc083f070c38bf66855fe04b290",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2013-11-28T12:22:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8c90bea88dbb3cf8d101380ed405937ff755f319c12744c25a92669025d21337"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1311.7298",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}