Pith Number

pith:JFN3BMDN

pith:2014:JFN3BMDN7ASEIIAWF5C6HWXGAB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Rateless Lossy Compression via the Extremes

Albert No, Tsachy Weissman

arxiv:1406.6730 v2 · 2014-06-25 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JFN3BMDN7ASEIIAWF5C6HWXGAB}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T01:19:30.782046Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

495bb0b06df8244420162f45e3dae6007d21ccd54ef029b6af9ed3271de2a96b

Aliases

arxiv: 1406.6730 · arxiv_version: 1406.6730v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1406.6730 · pith_short_12: JFN3BMDN7ASE · pith_short_16: JFN3BMDN7ASEIIAW · pith_short_8: JFN3BMDN

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/JFN3BMDN7ASEIIAWF5C6HWXGAB \
  | 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: 495bb0b06df8244420162f45e3dae6007d21ccd54ef029b6af9ed3271de2a96b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e2da593327c051037c3bdcb5600c31d268f33a6ed6bb95f50d7bfdb9bdd60c1b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2014-06-25T23:02:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4ca8b45c8b631914a32e0ad1abb25e0db82673bb9a3202b29b02247894444885"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1406.6730",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}