Pith Number

pith:N2X3BVUZ

pith:2018:N2X3BVUZI5FMIXAMX754LDI5ZJ

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Ergodic Capacity Analysis of Free-Space Optical Links With Nonzero Boresight Pointing Errors

Imran Shafique Ansari, Julian Cheng, Mohamed-Slim Alouini

arxiv:1805.05571 v1 · 2018-05-15 · cs.IT · cs.PF · math.IT

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:16:00.157003Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6eafb0d699474ac45c0cbffbc58d1dca4df9c62d15640c93513be78e2e2cc036

Aliases

arxiv: 1805.05571 · arxiv_version: 1805.05571v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.05571 · pith_short_12: N2X3BVUZI5FM · pith_short_16: N2X3BVUZI5FMIXAM · pith_short_8: N2X3BVUZ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/N2X3BVUZI5FMIXAMX754LDI5ZJ \
  | 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: 6eafb0d699474ac45c0cbffbc58d1dca4df9c62d15640c93513be78e2e2cc036

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a8f70f3592a5c4568f5490f714b2f3e020d44b0241b3381005426dc8fb0420de",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.PF",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2018-05-15T05:41:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6f2feaa0ad9073cc5765c6fd3e08580f887648657b1b7bb71aa0bdc19c70652a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1805.05571",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}