Pith Number

pith:MCPPCWR3

pith:2018:MCPPCWR3WTCH35T5ZUSOULUNND

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Timely Lossless Source Coding for Randomly Arriving Symbols

Emina Soljanin, Jing Zhong, Roy D. Yates

arxiv:1810.01533 v1 · 2018-10-02 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MCPPCWR3WTCH35T5ZUSOULUNND}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T00:04:11.848923Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

609ef15a3bb4c47df67dcd24ea2e8d68dc6f5f7f564bff5dc98ca8fbf9ad0c6d

Aliases

arxiv: 1810.01533 · arxiv_version: 1810.01533v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1810.01533 · pith_short_12: MCPPCWR3WTCH · pith_short_16: MCPPCWR3WTCH35T5 · pith_short_8: MCPPCWR3

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/MCPPCWR3WTCH35T5ZUSOULUNND \
  | 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: 609ef15a3bb4c47df67dcd24ea2e8d68dc6f5f7f564bff5dc98ca8fbf9ad0c6d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2a51b3c1a405e6c951d9090ad65f8a0977704a7bb51b9998e725f4cc74e11050",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2018-10-02T21:53:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8b2bc94d197e18927339b6b681f603f2106e9ea1c630328a7f124a69b0c1858f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1810.01533",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}