Pith Number

pith:IHT7IPTK

pith:2016:IHT7IPTKUXWBJFRCIDFKCM4LK5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The life and work of Marvin Kenneth Simon

A. Goldsmith, D. Divsalar, E. Biglieri, L. Milstein, M. S. Alouini, S. Dolinar

arxiv:1601.01923 v1 · 2016-01-08 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IHT7IPTKUXWBJFRCIDFKCM4LK5}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T01:23:11.060578Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

41e7f43e6aa5ec14962240caa1338b57475bff52fa042d2850bdad343d3afe8f

Aliases

arxiv: 1601.01923 · arxiv_version: 1601.01923v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1601.01923 · pith_short_12: IHT7IPTKUXWB · pith_short_16: IHT7IPTKUXWBJFRC · pith_short_8: IHT7IPTK

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/IHT7IPTKUXWBJFRCIDFKCM4LK5 \
  | 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: 41e7f43e6aa5ec14962240caa1338b57475bff52fa042d2850bdad343d3afe8f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "624e744c555398a075396cf8a25972c21b0b21fa56f8794d61fecfbada3e170e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2016-01-08T16:10:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "67beb011f64fe3ca4ed6f570336e54843f8cf6264b35b0bbaa8231f0dd40dba2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1601.01923",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}