Pith Number

pith:M4GU24AO

pith:2017:M4GU24AONPIZKDIGWEWDOBUXSM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The meet operation in the imbalance lattice of maximal instantaneous codes: alternative proof of existence

D. Stott Parker, Sandor Radeleczki, Stephan Foldes

arxiv:1702.06438 v2 · 2017-02-21 · math.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{M4GU24AONPIZKDIGWEWDOBUXSM}

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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	2026-05-18T00:33:34.913057Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

670d4d700e6bd1950d06b12c370697931224d75f24357547378d92724fa966d5

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.06438 · arxiv_version: 1702.06438v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.06438 · pith_short_12: M4GU24AONPIZ · pith_short_16: M4GU24AONPIZKDIG · pith_short_8: M4GU24AO

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/M4GU24AONPIZKDIGWEWDOBUXSM \
  | 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: 670d4d700e6bd1950d06b12c370697931224d75f24357547378d92724fa966d5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4207023b89a55c1c3137c87336f871d48f2e201d0bbc9de3358de2e34556ad26",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-21T15:30:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6811bde8334098955f7179a5d5bad2fb8b5e52c413bcddae4843ce977b6dd061"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.06438",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}