Pith Number

pith:V5C2CIB7

pith:2013:V5C2CIB7WKXP32XJCD5FEEQPDI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

XORing Elephants: Novel Erasure Codes for Big Data

Alexandros G. Dimakis, Dhruba Borthakur, Dimitris Papailiopoulos, Maheswaran Sathiamoorthy, Megasthenis Asteris, Ramkumar Vadali, Scott Chen

arxiv:1301.3791 v1 · 2013-01-16 · cs.IT · cs.DC · cs.NI · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{V5C2CIB7WKXP32XJCD5FEEQPDI}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T03:36:16.632696Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

af45a1203fb2aefdeae910fa52120f1a1aa267ec5abd8858f348d6c7d50c3384

Aliases

arxiv: 1301.3791 · arxiv_version: 1301.3791v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1301.3791 · pith_short_12: V5C2CIB7WKXP · pith_short_16: V5C2CIB7WKXP32XJ · pith_short_8: V5C2CIB7

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/V5C2CIB7WKXP32XJCD5FEEQPDI \
  | 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: af45a1203fb2aefdeae910fa52120f1a1aa267ec5abd8858f348d6c7d50c3384

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c4c4fb4c7bc40161a953a1d4c2b7bb8c72b08e97779befc1d9c54188c1939444",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC",
      "cs.NI",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2013-01-16T18:51:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "35802b6c56b70f502f36b1aaa3f18a7dbdedd7daaa08ab9e38398a95d1f0709f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1301.3791",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}