Pith Number

pith:NJ6X4P3H

pith:2012:NJ6X4P3HXIDMHZO2H7JKC5LI35

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Minimum Communication Cost for Joint Distributed Source Coding and Dispersive Information Routing

Emrah Akyol, Kenneth Rose, Kumar Viswanatha

arxiv:1209.4383 v1 · 2012-09-19 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NJ6X4P3HXIDMHZO2H7JKC5LI35}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T03:45:11.875050Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6a7d7e3f67ba06c3e5da3fd2a17568df61de6f8820120c222566ba8c180dd927

Aliases

arxiv: 1209.4383 · arxiv_version: 1209.4383v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1209.4383 · pith_short_12: NJ6X4P3HXIDM · pith_short_16: NJ6X4P3HXIDMHZO2 · pith_short_8: NJ6X4P3H

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/NJ6X4P3HXIDMHZO2H7JKC5LI35 \
  | 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: 6a7d7e3f67ba06c3e5da3fd2a17568df61de6f8820120c222566ba8c180dd927

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a7cdaa4db830e9a5e23f944e860a4e2e63cbf8fc41181c5cb2c71a4dd2a4149a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2012-09-19T22:31:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "12ae3605cf99c1473e67394142556fdf5bc9ed90a6616b28ce7d0724f9b29021"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1209.4383",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}