Pith Number

pith:V4F56OXT

pith:2012:V4F56OXTFW7BQBLXWWIVQRGBYG

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Signal Enhancement as Minimization of Relevant Information Loss

Bernhard C. Geiger, Gernot Kubin

arxiv:1205.6935 v2 · 2012-05-31 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{V4F56OXTFW7BQBLXWWIVQRGBYG}

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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	2026-05-18T03:04:15.637805Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

af0bdf3af32dbe180577b5915844c1c1bf962ae14103c606f245eee8d7649892

Aliases

arxiv: 1205.6935 · arxiv_version: 1205.6935v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1205.6935 · pith_short_12: V4F56OXTFW7B · pith_short_16: V4F56OXTFW7BQBLX · pith_short_8: V4F56OXT

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/V4F56OXTFW7BQBLXWWIVQRGBYG \
  | 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: af0bdf3af32dbe180577b5915844c1c1bf962ae14103c606f245eee8d7649892

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f2112de68487b4d9215ea2fb0f0396fed8933aa81c15e15a3e55b7d8e61afccc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2012-05-31T09:42:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bbfeaa9a2706b46b444b7b0452080218e0abd147c136c01ed9520a5890c1130e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1205.6935",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}