Pith Number

pith:VSZWTRPO

pith:2016:VSZWTRPOKFTQGTVCOR7NMMPDBJ

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Linear Programming based Converses for Finite Blocklength Lossy Joint Source-Channel Coding

Ankur A. Kulkarni, Sharu Theresa Jose

arxiv:1608.03165 v2 · 2016-08-10 · cs.IT · cs.DM · math.IT · math.OC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VSZWTRPOKFTQGTVCOR7NMMPDBJ}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:45:06.454348Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

acb369c5ee5167034ea2747ed631e30a43bafa0f92106f710ce5f005c504d72d

Aliases

arxiv: 1608.03165 · arxiv_version: 1608.03165v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1608.03165 · pith_short_12: VSZWTRPOKFTQ · pith_short_16: VSZWTRPOKFTQGTVC · pith_short_8: VSZWTRPO

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VSZWTRPOKFTQGTVCOR7NMMPDBJ \
  | 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: acb369c5ee5167034ea2747ed631e30a43bafa0f92106f710ce5f005c504d72d

Canonical record JSON

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    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5aff11d51a926dd66c9e450844f4e0361bc827957e0fa9d3700e9f98b6eb83f2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DM",
      "math.IT",
      "math.OC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2016-08-10T13:28:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "481a0533836ccf4e1d531ba4ce6d26f4940ee0e91cd748676ede34a21cea40b0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1608.03165",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}