Pith Number

pith:RI6VOK23

pith:2012:RI6VOK23DOSC5TQ2YJ636JZEK3

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A Compression Algorithm Using Mis-aligned Side-information

David Tse, Kannan Ramchandran, Nan Ma

arxiv:1202.0865 v1 · 2012-02-04 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RI6VOK23DOSC5TQ2YJ636JZEK3}

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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	2026-05-18T00:59:09.881995Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8a3d572b5b1ba42ece1ac27dbf272456d0f0330d6114d2335558ff7e035a56db

Aliases

arxiv: 1202.0865 · arxiv_version: 1202.0865v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1202.0865 · pith_short_12: RI6VOK23DOSC · pith_short_16: RI6VOK23DOSC5TQ2 · pith_short_8: RI6VOK23

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RI6VOK23DOSC5TQ2YJ636JZEK3 \
  | 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: 8a3d572b5b1ba42ece1ac27dbf272456d0f0330d6114d2335558ff7e035a56db

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "52eb9f7668dde56a5775a37eff83aafd2582243d3bfcc2809833c4b6c59e8152",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2012-02-04T03:33:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "15f7478cc617693f17ec572025c9d6e7a158617efe88f62b946768fc8f592b07"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1202.0865",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}