Pith Number

pith:JT5SZOFT

pith:2012:JT5SZOFTMIAT5AGGDJG3XFW5OU

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Kolmogorov complexity and the asymptotic bound for error-correcting codes

Matilde Marcolli, Yuri I. Manin

arxiv:1203.0653 v2 · 2012-03-03 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JT5SZOFTMIAT5AGGDJG3XFW5OU}

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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	2026-05-18T02:21:17.300049Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4cfb2cb8b362013e80c61a4dbb96dd7526cd96771c8d2ffc092cc24e28c4dff5

Aliases

arxiv: 1203.0653 · arxiv_version: 1203.0653v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1203.0653 · pith_short_12: JT5SZOFTMIAT · pith_short_16: JT5SZOFTMIAT5AGG · pith_short_8: JT5SZOFT

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/JT5SZOFTMIAT5AGGDJG3XFW5OU \
  | 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: 4cfb2cb8b362013e80c61a4dbb96dd7526cd96771c8d2ffc092cc24e28c4dff5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "46df11a6b19bad22c6c009e3229b437ea8748395153410742c8bb238c262d9e3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2012-03-03T13:39:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "96dc59a58311c09f4fed07a438821eee05825ea762f31dd57b5e047ee64cf901"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1203.0653",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}