Pith Number

pith:KZGV3PDN

pith:2013:KZGV3PDNHAYCUVIYEURVVR3Z34

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A universal, operational theory of unicast multi-user communication with fidelity criteria

Anant Sahai, Mukul Agarwal, Sanjoy Mitter

arxiv:1302.5860 v1 · 2013-02-24 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KZGV3PDNHAYCUVIYEURVVR3Z34}

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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	2026-05-18T03:32:43.420610Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

564d5dbc6d38302a551825235ac779df15bc5a9cc660f02f5008d07a493c5ed9

Aliases

arxiv: 1302.5860 · arxiv_version: 1302.5860v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1302.5860 · pith_short_12: KZGV3PDNHAYC · pith_short_16: KZGV3PDNHAYCUVIY · pith_short_8: KZGV3PDN

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/KZGV3PDNHAYCUVIYEURVVR3Z34 \
  | 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: 564d5dbc6d38302a551825235ac779df15bc5a9cc660f02f5008d07a493c5ed9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9a35991b9d0b14b9d0ba992d02ccc76b3fc4b2b02a83d8178537564989a43f73",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2013-02-24T01:18:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7990f6c65fed54ae6979051700520d768afa7a51cd871b7842d710367b80705e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1302.5860",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}