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pith:2018:OJUAJ5PEDZGOGN5RD4DIQ7DCJD
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Optimal probabilistic polynomial time compression and the Slepian-Wolf theorem: tighter version and simple proofs

Bruno Bauwens

arxiv:1802.00750 v1 · 2018-02-02 · cs.IT · math.IT

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First computed 2026-05-18T00:24:32.432765Z
Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature Pith Ed25519 (pith-v1-2026-05) · public key
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Canonical hash

726804f5e41e4ce337b11f06887c6248d3aaa666e4853c488ae8d349153a273d

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arxiv: 1802.00750 · arxiv_version: 1802.00750v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1802.00750 · pith_short_12: OJUAJ5PEDZGO · pith_short_16: OJUAJ5PEDZGOGN5R · pith_short_8: OJUAJ5PE
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/OJUAJ5PEDZGOGN5RD4DIQ7DCJD \
  | 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: 726804f5e41e4ce337b11f06887c6248d3aaa666e4853c488ae8d349153a273d
Canonical record JSON
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    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
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