Pith Number

pith:PYS2NZ3O

pith:2014:PYS2NZ3OQWRGNZN3VCL34XJRWQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

An Achievable Rate-Distortion Region for the Multiple Descriptions Problem

Farhad Shirani, Sandeep Pradhan

arxiv:1402.2032 v1 · 2014-02-10 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PYS2NZ3OQWRGNZN3VCL34XJRWQ}

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4 Citations open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T02:59:32.578427Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7e25a6e76e85a266e5bba897be5d31b4256dbe5115c6ec6ea4ff5d62f8b73d4d

Aliases

arxiv: 1402.2032 · arxiv_version: 1402.2032v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1402.2032 · pith_short_12: PYS2NZ3OQWRG · pith_short_16: PYS2NZ3OQWRGNZN3 · pith_short_8: PYS2NZ3O

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/PYS2NZ3OQWRGNZN3VCL34XJRWQ \
  | 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: 7e25a6e76e85a266e5bba897be5d31b4256dbe5115c6ec6ea4ff5d62f8b73d4d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c254c7ffe3e54c1bbb93cb5a3f04ff029ce23d1b54f030aecce190cf33ac7b2d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2014-02-10T04:25:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0af79acec83bcc13d0074d0740a892e4629a170f223e5ef15d4e342df5af9b27"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1402.2032",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}