Pith Number

pith:LOE7QBKG

pith:2012:LOE7QBKGL3N6QSQ7BBKVTHSEIT

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Universal decoding for arbitrary channels relative to a given class of decoding metrics

Neri Merhav

arxiv:1210.6764 v1 · 2012-10-25 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LOE7QBKGL3N6QSQ7BBKVTHSEIT}

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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	2026-05-18T00:58:18.004568Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5b89f805465edbe84a1f0855599e4444cfe05dd80bdd55f3f5a4b582c25b35ec

Aliases

arxiv: 1210.6764 · arxiv_version: 1210.6764v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1210.6764 · pith_short_12: LOE7QBKGL3N6 · pith_short_16: LOE7QBKGL3N6QSQ7 · pith_short_8: LOE7QBKG

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/LOE7QBKGL3N6QSQ7BBKVTHSEIT \
  | 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: 5b89f805465edbe84a1f0855599e4444cfe05dd80bdd55f3f5a4b582c25b35ec

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "11b3dc52d6a1df31cea6637b7ba7f73acfd06e2206d214271009bcf6c040c437",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2012-10-25T09:19:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6cbedbddc4cc811b3a88c82ae85626e77cfb3275d946a6a30b0d148dfaf554dc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1210.6764",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}