Pith Number

pith:SY7OO2KA

pith:2004:SY7OO2KATC25XN2DSBHLCIJYRB

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Improved error bounds for the erasure/list scheme: the binary and spherical cases

Alexander Barg

arxiv:cs/0407010 v1 · 2004-07-04 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\pithnumber{SY7OO2KATC25XN2DSBHLCIJYRB}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:58:26.962497Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

963ee7694098b5dbb743904eb121388847d1ae1eae0468db49849ddbcaf04614

Aliases

arxiv: cs/0407010 · arxiv_version: cs/0407010v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cs/0407010 · pith_short_12: SY7OO2KATC25 · pith_short_16: SY7OO2KATC25XN2D · pith_short_8: SY7OO2KA

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/SY7OO2KATC25XN2DSBHLCIJYRB \
  | 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: 963ee7694098b5dbb743904eb121388847d1ae1eae0468db49849ddbcaf04614

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7214049198d2e510aa95d68bc377911fdb57396fb3e611825ace06fc56ee494f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2004-07-04T21:13:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0206a59dedc1c0dab608086610c8cbe8dd2f15ded04492823548bf4a9315935e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "cs/0407010",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}