Pith Number

pith:NXI2FL44

pith:2018:NXI2FL44X2WPGV5UJWIGLPYA4N

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Rate-distortion functions of non-stationary Markoff chains and their block-independent approximations

Mukul Agarwal

arxiv:1803.09871 v1 · 2018-03-27 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\pithnumber{NXI2FL44X2WPGV5UJWIGLPYA4N}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:20:08.006853Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6dd1a2af9cbeacf357b44d9065bf00e3632b8624459246170aa28c4262e31e12

Aliases

arxiv: 1803.09871 · arxiv_version: 1803.09871v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1803.09871 · pith_short_12: NXI2FL44X2WP · pith_short_16: NXI2FL44X2WPGV5U · pith_short_8: NXI2FL44

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NXI2FL44X2WPGV5UJWIGLPYA4N \
  | 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: 6dd1a2af9cbeacf357b44d9065bf00e3632b8624459246170aa28c4262e31e12

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0e2474a905560c3665dd037b971bc9b7130966a5dad75d7e6a9d42e007e128ea",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2018-03-27T03:16:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c47f2d942b783ea06bad8d39b8f1255508d022da1382a97e70399c9fb0dd1251"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1803.09871",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}