Pith Number

pith:MNJXPSJP

pith:2011:MNJXPSJPCWLSV6XXXG2XAW7IAE

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Reliable Physical Layer Network Coding

Bobak Nazer, Michael Gastpar

arxiv:1102.5724 v1 · 2011-02-28 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MNJXPSJPCWLSV6XXXG2XAW7IAE}

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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	2026-05-18T04:27:46.129398Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

635377c92f15972afaf7b9b5705be80114ceec3d6c64f44f7f203efdb927f657

Aliases

arxiv: 1102.5724 · arxiv_version: 1102.5724v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1102.5724 · pith_short_12: MNJXPSJPCWLS · pith_short_16: MNJXPSJPCWLSV6XX · pith_short_8: MNJXPSJP

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/MNJXPSJPCWLSV6XXXG2XAW7IAE \
  | 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: 635377c92f15972afaf7b9b5705be80114ceec3d6c64f44f7f203efdb927f657

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "74a6c9384700c6cb2dab3b8b815b1bf639c3768609e52506c322fc01f315ee28",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2011-02-28T18:16:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "325c5c2020e1a11e342df47076d1f934c29e6a869b87aea769a193f1333c38b2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1102.5724",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}