Pith Number

pith:M2VJOAHY

pith:2007:M2VJOAHY7KNNEBDESI5NZYNMAB

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Networked Multiple Description Estimation and Compression with Resource Scalability

Xiaohan Wang, Xiaolin Wu, Zhe Wang

arxiv:0708.3531 v1 · 2007-08-27 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{M2VJOAHY7KNNEBDESI5NZYNMAB}

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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	2026-07-04T15:03:50.368673Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

66aa9700f8fa9ad20464923adce1ac0077344cbc6e755229bb7ae322d23cdafb

Aliases

arxiv: 0708.3531 · arxiv_version: 0708.3531v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0708.3531 · pith_short_12: M2VJOAHY7KNN · pith_short_16: M2VJOAHY7KNNEBDE · pith_short_8: M2VJOAHY

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/M2VJOAHY7KNNEBDESI5NZYNMAB \
  | 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: 66aa9700f8fa9ad20464923adce1ac0077344cbc6e755229bb7ae322d23cdafb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "960fbbb18f010cd2a2f14c600e53f26794106d392802688b51678682066ee483",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2007-08-27T03:11:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "255960938e92dc43b964dc061a3dfde86388f0defc00333664df13fdaf472d06"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0708.3531",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}