Pith Number

pith:JEJEGIJ2

pith:2018:JEJEGIJ2EN5QF2FMEQSREQCVIZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Semi-Finite Length Analysis for Information Theoretic Tasks

Masahito Hayashi

arxiv:1811.00262 v2 · 2018-11-01 · cs.IT · cs.CR · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JEJEGIJ2EN5QF2FMEQSREQCVIZ}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:01:06.548525Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

491243213a237b02e8ac2425124055465149b75df9685d107ab95c17d1b6c6cc

Aliases

arxiv: 1811.00262 · arxiv_version: 1811.00262v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1811.00262 · pith_short_12: JEJEGIJ2EN5Q · pith_short_16: JEJEGIJ2EN5QF2FM · pith_short_8: JEJEGIJ2

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/JEJEGIJ2EN5QF2FMEQSREQCVIZ \
  | 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: 491243213a237b02e8ac2425124055465149b75df9685d107ab95c17d1b6c6cc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2d1341f3cf55c9935bbf0ed34768d8e5c2cb948ca6b65c9d348988ea771b602a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2018-11-01T07:07:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "547ad25c04d57514bc9ffad5ec40b1f71403536f5794b7b426102eac33546b18"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1811.00262",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}