Pith Number

pith:RNUWZSYC

pith:2006:RNUWZSYCEIL25XFDSGB6S7S4KS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Decentralized Erasure Codes for Distributed Networked Storage

Alexandros G. Dimakis, Kannan Ramchandran, Vinod Prabhakaran

arxiv:cs/0606049 v1 · 2006-06-12 · cs.IT · cs.NI · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RNUWZSYCEIL25XFDSGB6S7S4KS}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:58:56.275545Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8b696ccb022217aedca39183e97e5c54b5494f9f47129a386db98e136b231229

Aliases

arxiv: cs/0606049 · arxiv_version: cs/0606049v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cs/0606049 · pith_short_12: RNUWZSYCEIL2 · pith_short_16: RNUWZSYCEIL25XFD · pith_short_8: RNUWZSYC

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/RNUWZSYCEIL25XFDSGB6S7S4KS \
  | 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: 8b696ccb022217aedca39183e97e5c54b5494f9f47129a386db98e136b231229

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "873c65e6bd916c52621bef7ffef3ee2eac2ea12b208433c6f5f5cb23bfda4df7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.NI",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2006-06-12T15:35:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "16a9039961633c8da5afbbe2c3ad7931182113b7b523191a6e0bae39d80e8aab"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "cs/0606049",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}