Pith Number

pith:UUZPQID3

pith:2010:UUZPQID3GOD7RIUMET3W4KAJAA

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Exact Hamming Distortion Analysis of Viterbi Encoded Trellis Coded Quantizers

John Kieffer, Yu Liao

arxiv:1010.1286 v1 · 2010-10-06 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UUZPQID3GOD7RIUMET3W4KAJAA}

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First computed	2026-05-18T04:39:41.479770Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a532f8207b3387f8a28c24f76e2809001858a362a4cee8875cedc74b6a288e68

Aliases

arxiv: 1010.1286 · arxiv_version: 1010.1286v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1010.1286 · pith_short_12: UUZPQID3GOD7 · pith_short_16: UUZPQID3GOD7RIUM · pith_short_8: UUZPQID3

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/UUZPQID3GOD7RIUMET3W4KAJAA \
  | 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: a532f8207b3387f8a28c24f76e2809001858a362a4cee8875cedc74b6a288e68

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fcb60c4b81341dd69ad2b36e9649f5aaeab820130acbcbf5dfc8717e2e049aff",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2010-10-06T21:27:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0535cc8a5da54e3a28a36d0e9c28501ab878bbb9f33b11074e894101ecf01842"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1010.1286",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}