Pith Number

pith:V4XWNQMS

pith:2013:V4XWNQMSACRUSWL5C4QHIIIPFU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Fixed-to-Variable Length Resolution Coding for Target Distributions

Georg B\"ocherer, Rana Ali Amjad

arxiv:1306.2550 v2 · 2013-06-11 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{V4XWNQMSACRUSWL5C4QHIIIPFU}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T03:17:00.005619Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

af2f66c19200a349597d172074210f2d0a845a86c8369a5ff6b10abe0fefe3b2

Aliases

arxiv: 1306.2550 · arxiv_version: 1306.2550v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1306.2550 · pith_short_12: V4XWNQMSACRU · pith_short_16: V4XWNQMSACRUSWL5 · pith_short_8: V4XWNQMS

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/V4XWNQMSACRUSWL5C4QHIIIPFU \
  | 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: af2f66c19200a349597d172074210f2d0a845a86c8369a5ff6b10abe0fefe3b2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "935de47a2c3194312734a55d93c09af577a9ba6daddba8ba2f0fd02269273418",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2013-06-11T15:18:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3dc51df54b0c5dd1669eb7d6116a5caa9598a8e461418a884731ceb225db4134"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1306.2550",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}