Pith Number

pith:PWOSHL2M

pith:2017:PWOSHL2MILTV6IQMJSCKIZTTSJ

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Layered black-box, behavioral interconnection perspective and applications to the problem of communication with fidelity criteria, Part I: i.i.d. sources

Anant Sahai, Mukul Agarwal, Sanjoy Mitter

arxiv:1703.05346 v2 · 2017-03-15 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\pithnumber{PWOSHL2MILTV6IQMJSCKIZTTSJ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:20:17.364718Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7d9d23af4c42e75f220c4c84a4667392739a8fa10f51142e369077c56e661603

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.05346 · arxiv_version: 1703.05346v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.05346 · pith_short_12: PWOSHL2MILTV · pith_short_16: PWOSHL2MILTV6IQM · pith_short_8: PWOSHL2M

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/PWOSHL2MILTV6IQMJSCKIZTTSJ \
  | 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: 7d9d23af4c42e75f220c4c84a4667392739a8fa10f51142e369077c56e661603

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "38caa7ffcdac30421703432e38c73446949557d5190092f940088f564222a61c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-15T18:47:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9b882ee50a28be7898c2fce992dd04d72c77532aa90c6139111d77c18437243c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.05346",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}