Pith Number

pith:L3O3P5DH

pith:2010:L3O3P5DHKYPYARMDJEWRXRDKSQ

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A statistical-mechanical view on source coding: physical compression and data compression

Neri Merhav

arxiv:1011.3516 v1 · 2010-11-15 · cond-mat.stat-mech · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{L3O3P5DHKYPYARMDJEWRXRDKSQ}

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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	2026-05-18T02:04:45.534752Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5eddb7f467561f804583492d1bc46a94390a4dbb798db846d95f25552143da2a

Aliases

arxiv: 1011.3516 · arxiv_version: 1011.3516v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1011.3516 · pith_short_12: L3O3P5DHKYPY · pith_short_16: L3O3P5DHKYPYARMD · pith_short_8: L3O3P5DH

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/L3O3P5DHKYPYARMDJEWRXRDKSQ \
  | 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: 5eddb7f467561f804583492d1bc46a94390a4dbb798db846d95f25552143da2a

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "submitted_at": "2010-11-15T21:02:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ab46de0b07c25c6f26e4f24c14af2760b940088c55ef22b8a1713f0611ad55eb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
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  }
}