Pith Number

pith:VBW4LYML

pith:2014:VBW4LYML7C7XBWQIAEH7G6TL45

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Applications of Information Nonanticipative Rate Distortion Function

Charalambos D. Charalambous, Christos K. Kourtellaris, Photios A. Stavrou

arxiv:1401.5828 v4 · 2014-01-22 · cs.IT · math.IT · math.OC · math.PR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VBW4LYML7C7XBWQIAEH7G6TL45}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T02:52:57.845602Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a86dc5e18bf8bf70da08010ff37a6be76f4d29ecdba3ac5f97ba1301660a601a

Aliases

arxiv: 1401.5828 · arxiv_version: 1401.5828v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1401.5828 · pith_short_12: VBW4LYML7C7X · pith_short_16: VBW4LYML7C7XBWQI · pith_short_8: VBW4LYML

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/VBW4LYML7C7XBWQIAEH7G6TL45 \
  | 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: a86dc5e18bf8bf70da08010ff37a6be76f4d29ecdba3ac5f97ba1301660a601a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3e8ddebadfab91d2318a579f6fd2a9288bd6cde7a67ddd38615ee407ac041e43",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT",
      "math.OC",
      "math.PR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2014-01-22T23:40:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "564113b2274b05d737b0c7d48567b2b4603d7a0cd8bf0622f595575e1ad94a4a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1401.5828",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}