Pith Number

pith:U7X5Q7YR

pith:2014:U7X5Q7YRY2ISD7ZT4M64DJ533S

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Repair for Distributed Storage Systems in Packet Erasure Networks

Carlo Fischione, Jun Li, Majid Gerami, Ming Xiao, Zihuai Lin

arxiv:1405.3188 v2 · 2014-05-13 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\pithnumber{U7X5Q7YRY2ISD7ZT4M64DJ533S}

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:51:50.095941Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a7efd87f11c69121ff33e33dc1a7bbdc961e3db9d0753e25786391e50273c9b4

Aliases

arxiv: 1405.3188 · arxiv_version: 1405.3188v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1405.3188 · pith_short_12: U7X5Q7YRY2IS · pith_short_16: U7X5Q7YRY2ISD7ZT · pith_short_8: U7X5Q7YR

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/U7X5Q7YRY2ISD7ZT4M64DJ533S \
  | 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: a7efd87f11c69121ff33e33dc1a7bbdc961e3db9d0753e25786391e50273c9b4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5f01f512226e53a283bae6bc0569c4671a314e5c552ff76232189ca69b4d6f38",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2014-05-13T15:31:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ddcdec9a02110ee7f3f6881c52f84d889673b8cd11e07b1461d04f3c8e0ccc42"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1405.3188",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}