Pith Number

pith:PWVSLER5

pith:2008:PWVSLER5KLJPKBQB5T33TTZ6QM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Lossy Source Transmission over the Relay Channel

Andrea J. Goldsmith, Deniz Gunduz, Elza Erkip, H. Vincent Poor

arxiv:0805.2996 v1 · 2008-05-20 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PWVSLER5KLJPKBQB5T33TTZ6QM}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T00:58:25.586405Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7dab25923d52d2f50601ecf7b9cf3e8319d0b230c84634a43abe5242b621b09d

Aliases

arxiv: 0805.2996 · arxiv_version: 0805.2996v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0805.2996 · pith_short_12: PWVSLER5KLJP · pith_short_16: PWVSLER5KLJPKBQB · pith_short_8: PWVSLER5

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/PWVSLER5KLJPKBQB5T33TTZ6QM \
  | 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: 7dab25923d52d2f50601ecf7b9cf3e8319d0b230c84634a43abe5242b621b09d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8a4d30b00e2cacde087b9a6a03f79334b729812e3ff04543e3be290f9c03c7ec",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2008-05-20T02:45:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d70e37e2bccfa703c420aaa66f622aa6fae68896f1f3554c220f14d794dce590"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0805.2996",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}