Pith Number

pith:NSEFUN4Z

pith:2014:NSEFUN4ZWYSWKW7RHD5LWINP7W

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A Dichotomy of Functions in Distributed Coding: An Information Spectral Approach

Shigeaki Kuzuoka, Shun Watanabe

arxiv:1408.5971 v4 · 2014-08-26 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NSEFUN4ZWYSWKW7RHD5LWINP7W}

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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	2026-05-18T02:16:20.949500Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6c885a3799b625655bf138fabb21affdad3e66841eef1a51b23a76eafd14eb69

Aliases

arxiv: 1408.5971 · arxiv_version: 1408.5971v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1408.5971 · pith_short_12: NSEFUN4ZWYSW · pith_short_16: NSEFUN4ZWYSWKW7R · pith_short_8: NSEFUN4Z

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NSEFUN4ZWYSWKW7RHD5LWINP7W \
  | 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: 6c885a3799b625655bf138fabb21affdad3e66841eef1a51b23a76eafd14eb69

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8134f8225fa336fba531ebd465e3553d44370ccc24828583120b7ca615a0b5eb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2014-08-26T01:46:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "af6fb091967e41214dc4a18fc9b46bb18cab571aee833101fa224fdc081937bf"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1408.5971",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}