Pith Number

pith:VLYU6J3I

pith:2014:VLYU6J3IET6GVEKL7RYOLPCW47

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Exact correct-decoding exponent of the wiretap channel decoder

Neri Merhav

arxiv:1403.6143 v1 · 2014-03-24 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VLYU6J3IET6GVEKL7RYOLPCW47}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:58:41.634899Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aaf14f276824fc6a914bfc70e5bc56e7f119ac29f358bea00340d1a4854379e2

Aliases

arxiv: 1403.6143 · arxiv_version: 1403.6143v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1403.6143 · pith_short_12: VLYU6J3IET6G · pith_short_16: VLYU6J3IET6GVEKL · pith_short_8: VLYU6J3I

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VLYU6J3IET6GVEKL7RYOLPCW47 \
  | 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: aaf14f276824fc6a914bfc70e5bc56e7f119ac29f358bea00340d1a4854379e2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "34ef007a36dc6abc5e9c1302a503c0469697e29c8f659fb50847fce9f7962f65",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2014-03-24T20:35:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "23e585a83d818831708c4746853c5f3e60afcda60e1ea9e6ad454b0bea345fbc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1403.6143",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}