Pith Number

pith:STB2S35W

pith:2006:STB2S35W67ULTWMSEV5S6VPNQX

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Encoding of Functions of Correlated Sources

Saravanan Vijayakumaran

arxiv:cs/0603109 v2 · 2006-03-28 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{STB2S35W67ULTWMSEV5S6VPNQX}

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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	2026-05-18T04:14:16.895753Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

94c3a96fb6f7e8b9d992257b2f55ed85d327d06aa5d4f00c0909623f4da5d506

Aliases

arxiv: cs/0603109 · arxiv_version: cs/0603109v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cs/0603109 · pith_short_12: STB2S35W67UL · pith_short_16: STB2S35W67ULTWMS · pith_short_8: STB2S35W

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/STB2S35W67ULTWMSEV5S6VPNQX \
  | 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: 94c3a96fb6f7e8b9d992257b2f55ed85d327d06aa5d4f00c0909623f4da5d506

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "49cd72e1b0ae5c461f1d3076bfe02b15ad902b2b27156dc04ca0e4db02a38d3d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2006-03-28T15:11:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6557209fb6be36329c2a5518dc6fe135418ebb78a5972009443377dc9a8cbede"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "cs/0603109",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}