Pith Number

pith:MIPBVA2J

pith:2012:MIPBVA2J4OXOZ3V3BO76QMK3QH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Optimal Information-Theoretic Wireless Location Verification

Gareth W. Peters, Ido Nevat, Robert Malaney, Shihao Yan

arxiv:1211.0737 v2 · 2012-11-05 · cs.IT · cs.CR · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MIPBVA2J4OXOZ3V3BO76QMK3QH}

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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	2026-05-18T02:40:47.644370Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

621e1a8349e3aeeceebb0bbfe8315b81d3efa449c93478442acb472f0d3449b6

Aliases

arxiv: 1211.0737 · arxiv_version: 1211.0737v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1211.0737 · pith_short_12: MIPBVA2J4OXO · pith_short_16: MIPBVA2J4OXOZ3V3 · pith_short_8: MIPBVA2J

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/MIPBVA2J4OXOZ3V3BO76QMK3QH \
  | 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: 621e1a8349e3aeeceebb0bbfe8315b81d3efa449c93478442acb472f0d3449b6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3aac31e884ca62b3ee8ed5b7597ec6be5d62bab4c3864b65185ef55a1a0bd0b5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2012-11-05T00:11:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0b832da69715b8dfa89c6cc11f9c4ccc0bb68df0edf922e7ecfe409748085aa5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1211.0737",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}