Pith Number

pith:VVJCMEAV

pith:2017:VVJCMEAVTU33DYUHRIM2LF7JMT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the Throughput of Channels that Wear Out

Lav R. Varshney, Ting-Yi Wu, Vincent Y. F. Tan

arxiv:1701.01474 v2 · 2017-01-05 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VVJCMEAVTU33DYUHRIM2LF7JMT}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T00:08:55.552347Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ad522610159d37b1e2878a19a597e964d5b2ecfffa23581014850e60f3731d3b

Aliases

arxiv: 1701.01474 · arxiv_version: 1701.01474v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1701.01474 · pith_short_12: VVJCMEAVTU33 · pith_short_16: VVJCMEAVTU33DYUH · pith_short_8: VVJCMEAV

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/VVJCMEAVTU33DYUHRIM2LF7JMT \
  | 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: ad522610159d37b1e2878a19a597e964d5b2ecfffa23581014850e60f3731d3b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0ce5e0d2e3fabdc1eb757ac2a9798719c1591a465f539ad0a1db89387165f0a6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-01-05T20:42:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "882af9a8a617819c158d7e952fcd5a11d8c3a345418ebc304222c06a85d24e1b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1701.01474",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}