Pith Number

pith:WHIJSLDF

pith:2013:WHIJSLDFTQ5BG6DFXQIKGGI2OO

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Every list-decodable code for high noise has abundant near-optimal rate puncturings

Atri Rudra, Mary Wootters

arxiv:1310.1891 v1 · 2013-10-07 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WHIJSLDFTQ5BG6DFXQIKGGI2OO}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T03:11:10.255167Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b1d0992c659c3a137865bc10a3191a7393e7feb0a2ad5cc5b269a358d1517d49

Aliases

arxiv: 1310.1891 · arxiv_version: 1310.1891v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1310.1891 · pith_short_12: WHIJSLDFTQ5B · pith_short_16: WHIJSLDFTQ5BG6DF · pith_short_8: WHIJSLDF

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/WHIJSLDFTQ5BG6DFXQIKGGI2OO \
  | 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: b1d0992c659c3a137865bc10a3191a7393e7feb0a2ad5cc5b269a358d1517d49

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "34fa07d37ee084e62ca1fdd8cc16b0e806fe311c27d4d0b14fd52ea03428a785",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2013-10-07T19:18:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5104086f5967405dc61bfde7328b498dedd1122f7238606fb0ab87abe242c0e5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1310.1891",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}