Pith Number

pith:UMMWHHOK

pith:2012:UMMWHHOKE4IVDJGSRQC6JOLGKI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Distributed Functional Scalar Quantization Simplified

John Z. Sun, Vinith Misra, Vivek K Goyal

arxiv:1206.1299 v1 · 2012-06-06 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UMMWHHOKE4IVDJGSRQC6JOLGKI}

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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	2026-05-18T02:20:47.979313Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a319639dca271151a4d28c05e4b9665234808d1c4f37185b5b9b88bc920784db

Aliases

arxiv: 1206.1299 · arxiv_version: 1206.1299v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1206.1299 · pith_short_12: UMMWHHOKE4IV · pith_short_16: UMMWHHOKE4IVDJGS · pith_short_8: UMMWHHOK

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/UMMWHHOKE4IVDJGSRQC6JOLGKI \
  | 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: a319639dca271151a4d28c05e4b9665234808d1c4f37185b5b9b88bc920784db

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "db217dd48088844deab8eb2183c8fde17d210364936608aae122120a8e25a454",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2012-06-06T19:00:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ece5885ec4980790490e0aa87c50abe4c7f00d96ff8a1d5c0ebba32ad99be000"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1206.1299",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}