Pith Number

pith:N22NH6LA

pith:2005:N22NH6LA72T3V75LUUSMV57J3R

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Broadcast Channels with Cooperating Decoders

Ron Dabora, Sergio D. Servetto (Cornell University)

arxiv:cs/0505032 v3 · 2005-05-11 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{N22NH6LA72T3V75LUUSMV57J3R}

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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	2026-05-18T00:58:26.892071Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6eb4d3f960fea7baffaba524caf7e9dc739ebee2945a4df196f64f094bdaafce

Aliases

arxiv: cs/0505032 · arxiv_version: cs/0505032v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cs/0505032 · pith_short_12: N22NH6LA72T3 · pith_short_16: N22NH6LA72T3V75L · pith_short_8: N22NH6LA

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/N22NH6LA72T3V75LUUSMV57J3R \
  | 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: 6eb4d3f960fea7baffaba524caf7e9dc739ebee2945a4df196f64f094bdaafce

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c3cf0f740ee8daf24980b679c4a4d6f2b031665ca37ef87cd6fffb2f708c524f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2005-05-11T19:37:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a246e66efe08c63bcca3b57184e1a1cd1732836e1441b9d869e35fc63281c2a6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "cs/0505032",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}