Pith Number

pith:K6VOYKM5

pith:2010:K6VOYKM5DLCXVRRSOT5CAZWHR2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Erasure Multiple Descriptions

Aaron B. Wagner, Ebad Ahmed

arxiv:1002.2971 v1 · 2010-02-15 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{K6VOYKM5DLCXVRRSOT5CAZWHR2}

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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	2026-05-18T00:59:11.055216Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

57aaec299d1ac57ac63274fa2066c78eab3ce2f06b5b7c838b0cf785b17d37c5

Aliases

arxiv: 1002.2971 · arxiv_version: 1002.2971v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1002.2971 · pith_short_12: K6VOYKM5DLCX · pith_short_16: K6VOYKM5DLCXVRRS · pith_short_8: K6VOYKM5

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/K6VOYKM5DLCXVRRSOT5CAZWHR2 \
  | 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: 57aaec299d1ac57ac63274fa2066c78eab3ce2f06b5b7c838b0cf785b17d37c5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "46dedc406ed276789ff506d2fdcb1dde367e4cdc3282b6ba6ac1f1138864bb8a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2010-02-15T22:24:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "34dad332d65db684b09104affe74a3073f0033cc93b7698989a0e4992215a7a4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1002.2971",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}