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pith:M3YCZM6D

pith:2015:M3YCZM6DBGIBWE2KWDXHLME4CV

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Simple one-shot bounds for various source coding problems using smooth Renyi quantities

Naqueeb Ahmad Warsi

arxiv:1511.08538 v2 · 2015-11-27 · cs.IT · math.IT · quant-ph

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\pithnumber{M3YCZM6DBGIBWE2KWDXHLME4CV}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:24:38.018998Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

66f02cb3c309901b134ab0ee75b09c15730abf0481ddd3b2d67e8bc80b8fec5a

Aliases

arxiv: 1511.08538 · arxiv_version: 1511.08538v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1511.08538 · pith_short_12: M3YCZM6DBGIB · pith_short_16: M3YCZM6DBGIBWE2K · pith_short_8: M3YCZM6D

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/M3YCZM6DBGIBWE2KWDXHLME4CV \
  | 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: 66f02cb3c309901b134ab0ee75b09c15730abf0481ddd3b2d67e8bc80b8fec5a

Canonical record JSON

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      "math.IT",
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2015-11-27T01:11:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2f7176de0d73e77cee92e7b10eb3b053d4eefd1fb82dc20ffea470abff80f8c3"
  },
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  "source": {
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  }
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