Pith Number

pith:W24JK5IV

pith:2018:W24JK5IVR4VE3VKKA63II5OX6H

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Inducing information stability and applications thereof to obtaining information theoretic necessary conditions directly from operational requirements

Eric Graves, Tan F. Wong

arxiv:1806.05589 v1 · 2018-06-14 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{W24JK5IVR4VE3VKKA63II5OX6H}

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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	2026-05-18T00:13:14.652121Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b6b89575158f2a4dd54a07b68475d7f1e05db1752caecc25909d56883ec4a5bb

Aliases

arxiv: 1806.05589 · arxiv_version: 1806.05589v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1806.05589 · pith_short_12: W24JK5IVR4VE · pith_short_16: W24JK5IVR4VE3VKK · pith_short_8: W24JK5IV

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/W24JK5IVR4VE3VKKA63II5OX6H \
  | 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: b6b89575158f2a4dd54a07b68475d7f1e05db1752caecc25909d56883ec4a5bb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8859409c5c40111b18471ffbd733049eb307a7c108876bb55ec6b243bb8c768d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2018-06-14T14:45:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9ede200a3216cea2a5bfd9fa6524346c33ebf6479bf0d2c30866224f18090a90"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1806.05589",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}