Pith Number

pith:VGUCALC6

pith:2018:VGUCALC6IRP4HJZ5WVQMMZSDV5

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Improved decoding of Folded Reed-Solomon and Multiplicity Codes

Mary Wootters, Noga Ron-Zewi, Shubhangi Saraf, Swastik Kopparty

arxiv:1805.01498 v1 · 2018-05-03 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VGUCALC6IRP4HJZ5WVQMMZSDV5}

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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	2026-05-18T00:16:51.176721Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a9a8202c5e445fc3a73db560c66643af53d46e637afb71a17b2cf0aeb604a244

Aliases

arxiv: 1805.01498 · arxiv_version: 1805.01498v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.01498 · pith_short_12: VGUCALC6IRP4 · pith_short_16: VGUCALC6IRP4HJZ5 · pith_short_8: VGUCALC6

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/VGUCALC6IRP4HJZ5WVQMMZSDV5 \
  | 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: a9a8202c5e445fc3a73db560c66643af53d46e637afb71a17b2cf0aeb604a244

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d0202811c4e1fefd119f7aee4e7c43e9b900390e555a2fcc8c6088301b455d4e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2018-05-03T18:29:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "90184b85dd745be47e2225a109590941d2fc42c18547f33320b6a24f64263017"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1805.01498",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}