Pith Number

pith:HVKAEV5V

pith:2017:HVKAEV5VBNNET62MUOKZVNZDZC

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Info-Clustering: An Efficient Algorithm by Network Information Flow

Ali Al-Bashabsheh, Chung Chan, Qiaoqiao Zhou

arxiv:1702.00109 v1 · 2017-02-01 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\pithnumber{HVKAEV5VBNNET62MUOKZVNZDZC}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:51:35.198639Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3d540257b50b5a49fb4ca3959ab723c8b566fb56cba6b6288ff734763c69454f

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.00109 · arxiv_version: 1702.00109v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.00109 · pith_short_12: HVKAEV5VBNNE · pith_short_16: HVKAEV5VBNNET62M · pith_short_8: HVKAEV5V

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/HVKAEV5VBNNET62MUOKZVNZDZC \
  | 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: 3d540257b50b5a49fb4ca3959ab723c8b566fb56cba6b6288ff734763c69454f

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-01T03:04:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6067172fcbded6be1bb1dcd797c31c28a4da6c402c4d9d8942058bb3ff2f026f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.00109",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}