Pith Number

pith:OSTCLWMK

pith:2012:OSTCLWMKIBNIA2K4KVV7YQQTZL

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On the Dispersions of Three Network Information Theory Problems

Oliver Kosut, Vincent Y. F. Tan

arxiv:1201.3901 v3 · 2012-01-18 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OSTCLWMKIBNIA2K4KVV7YQQTZL}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T03:01:33.570892Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

74a625d98a405a80695c556bfc4213cac75fa466808db798a50952226b66361e

Aliases

arxiv: 1201.3901 · arxiv_version: 1201.3901v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1201.3901 · pith_short_12: OSTCLWMKIBNI · pith_short_16: OSTCLWMKIBNIA2K4 · pith_short_8: OSTCLWMK

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/OSTCLWMKIBNIA2K4KVV7YQQTZL \
  | 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: 74a625d98a405a80695c556bfc4213cac75fa466808db798a50952226b66361e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "521a3aeb79a3468da6de8cb1a274d25b41920e49181115a8eb7ad77bcd5a41cd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2012-01-18T20:24:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1eb9e1260d8e9d6405bca88cee5d16940715fd1eab61d7883481130c6edf340b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1201.3901",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}