Pith Number

pith:VGNBNKPQ

pith:2010:VGNBNKPQ6QLSXN5Z6EZTQBEKLP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Noisy Network Coding

Abbas El Gamal, Sae-Young Chung, Sung Hoon Lim, Young-Han Kim

arxiv:1002.3188 v2 · 2010-02-16 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VGNBNKPQ6QLSXN5Z6EZTQBEKLP}

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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	2026-05-18T02:24:38.823432Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a99a16a9f0f4172bb7b9f13338048a5bc2aec5bd737f94900e83626399db2a18

Aliases

arxiv: 1002.3188 · arxiv_version: 1002.3188v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1002.3188 · pith_short_12: VGNBNKPQ6QLS · pith_short_16: VGNBNKPQ6QLSXN5Z · pith_short_8: VGNBNKPQ

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/VGNBNKPQ6QLSXN5Z6EZTQBEKLP \
  | 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: a99a16a9f0f4172bb7b9f13338048a5bc2aec5bd737f94900e83626399db2a18

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6cde8862f188aa63a7de6cdb5a1dcde61d2fd10025da4fa2da3132c99bd40261",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2010-02-16T23:48:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ab2e8ff43ccce18d70caa20338dba531f7844c69229d693ca41e9c39c8460e11"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1002.3188",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}