Pith Number

pith:UEEY2JZ4

pith:2016:UEEY2JZ4QQFBFXBN3WTFNKDIKB

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Cell-Free Massive MIMO versus Small Cells

Alexei Ashikhmin, Erik G. Larsson, Hien Quoc Ngo, Hong Yang, Thomas L. Marzetta

arxiv:1602.08232 v2 · 2016-02-26 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UEEY2JZ4QQFBFXBN3WTFNKDIKB}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T00:52:44.365498Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a1098d273c840a12dc2ddda656a868505b5ec27ad265ebdc37cae99e4915336b

Aliases

arxiv: 1602.08232 · arxiv_version: 1602.08232v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1602.08232 · pith_short_12: UEEY2JZ4QQFB · pith_short_16: UEEY2JZ4QQFBFXBN · pith_short_8: UEEY2JZ4

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/UEEY2JZ4QQFBFXBN3WTFNKDIKB \
  | 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: a1098d273c840a12dc2ddda656a868505b5ec27ad265ebdc37cae99e4915336b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "98324b866b4d538adb47693706ee791ecaaf3ea991bbe956b4f9b9f35b2a0229",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2016-02-26T08:29:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d7d90759ed7bc3a861580a04325976d48cfb54988a3be63b4a728d94db6a16d2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1602.08232",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}