Pith Number

pith:MAN2776L

pith:2015:MAN2776LEG7XJFNIBPS4JG4ZQU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Perspective on Future Research Directions in Information Theory

Alexandros Dimakis, Andrea Montanari, Edmund Yeh, Haris Vikalo, Jeffrey G. Andrews, Jon Sorenson, Ken Duffy, Lara Dolecek, Lav Varshney, Manolis Kellis, Michelle Effros, Muriel Medard, Olgica Milenkovic, Randall Berry, Saul Kato, Soheil Feizi, Sriram Vishwanath, Stuart Licht

arxiv:1507.05941 v1 · 2015-07-21 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MAN2776LEG7XJFNIBPS4JG4ZQU}

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:36:32.073071Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

601bafffcb21bf7495a80be5c49b9985303c147135c53cbed1b45048393309ce

Aliases

arxiv: 1507.05941 · arxiv_version: 1507.05941v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1507.05941 · pith_short_12: MAN2776LEG7X · pith_short_16: MAN2776LEG7XJFNI · pith_short_8: MAN2776L

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/MAN2776LEG7XJFNIBPS4JG4ZQU \
  | 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: 601bafffcb21bf7495a80be5c49b9985303c147135c53cbed1b45048393309ce

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b524149c8f8461b6bd535b1695d6ad2f206a54235787231e74f6713ed514ef5e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2015-07-21T18:42:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e614753fe21b70c36dd894f7793aab22f10707d2d184fa231bdeee5aecd4c295"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1507.05941",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}