Pith Number

pith:JVQQUTUT

pith:2006:JVQQUTUTFDVELTM2ZCINUNSC35

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Lossless coding for distributed streaming sources

Anant Sahai, Cheng Chang, Stark Draper

arxiv:cs/0610144 v1 · 2006-10-25 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JVQQUTUTFDVELTM2ZCINUNSC35}

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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	2026-07-04T15:02:53.780940Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4d610a4e9328ea45cd9ac890da3642df6aaf946dc5ebbb5e347751d07f9c9537

Aliases

arxiv: cs/0610144 · arxiv_version: cs/0610144v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cs/0610144 · pith_short_12: JVQQUTUTFDVE · pith_short_16: JVQQUTUTFDVELTM2 · pith_short_8: JVQQUTUT

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/JVQQUTUTFDVELTM2ZCINUNSC35 \
  | 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: 4d610a4e9328ea45cd9ac890da3642df6aaf946dc5ebbb5e347751d07f9c9537

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "488dc3084ec051bb7db176a1004e7d2448e4d0ee353a731efffa7fef66faffba",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2006-10-25T00:20:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "038ba5cdd81e136880cbcafb9a7cdb984a29ec001ca66202f3ed3820447044e2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "cs/0610144",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}