Pith Number

pith:RGDMYPW3

pith:2017:RGDMYPW3W2SEWL5JVBR5LU5FVE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

High Throughput Probabilistic Shaping with Product Distribution Matching

Fabian Steiner, Georg B\"ocherer, Patrick Schulte

arxiv:1702.07510 v1 · 2017-02-24 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T00:50:03.084098Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8986cc3edbb6a44b2fa9a863d5d3a5a93fc77d833481830088a604b6d489c5d4

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.07510 · arxiv_version: 1702.07510v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.07510 · pith_short_12: RGDMYPW3W2SE · pith_short_16: RGDMYPW3W2SEWL5J · pith_short_8: RGDMYPW3

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/RGDMYPW3W2SEWL5JVBR5LU5FVE \
  | 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: 8986cc3edbb6a44b2fa9a863d5d3a5a93fc77d833481830088a604b6d489c5d4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "36b4b73588d5b5d16acbd99ec1266b16b9b07c2c31460791f85e8b2ea5e41bd9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-24T09:27:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "12d0bf13f66fea3df2ec61888befad8de9a229e5ec66aab9112e804fd9107325"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.07510",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}