Pith Number

pith:VKD6ZPYE

pith:2017:VKD6ZPYEIAQU3NGHE2K6UR4PB6

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Rate-Distortion Theory of Finite Point Processes

Dominic Schuhmacher, Franz Hlawatsch, G\"unther Koliander

arxiv:1704.05758 v2 · 2017-04-19 · cs.IT · math.IT · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VKD6ZPYEIAQU3NGHE2K6UR4PB6}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:15:30.790201Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aa87ecbf0440214db4c72695ea478f0f870363af112d55dc25b56c7001deb0f0

Aliases

arxiv: 1704.05758 · arxiv_version: 1704.05758v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1704.05758 · pith_short_12: VKD6ZPYEIAQU · pith_short_16: VKD6ZPYEIAQU3NGH · pith_short_8: VKD6ZPYE

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VKD6ZPYEIAQU3NGHE2K6UR4PB6 \
  | 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: aa87ecbf0440214db4c72695ea478f0f870363af112d55dc25b56c7001deb0f0

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT",
      "math.PR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-04-19T14:52:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7bcae70530f44ccae6a97645f01eb3ccc5aaca39b23dfa6766dd1161038ff0c0"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}