Pith Number

pith:WMDE5TRB

pith:2010:WMDE5TRBBNU5LZY75R2VBXO346

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Data processing theorems and the second law of thermodynamics

Neri Merhav

arxiv:1007.2827 v1 · 2010-07-16 · cs.IT · cond-mat.stat-mech · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WMDE5TRBBNU5LZY75R2VBXO346}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:59:10.807673Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b3064ece210b69d5e71fec7550dddbe7ad01bf3cea327bbe38ec12c40ebf983e

Aliases

arxiv: 1007.2827 · arxiv_version: 1007.2827v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1007.2827 · pith_short_12: WMDE5TRBBNU5 · pith_short_16: WMDE5TRBBNU5LZY7 · pith_short_8: WMDE5TRB

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/WMDE5TRBBNU5LZY75R2VBXO346 \
  | 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: b3064ece210b69d5e71fec7550dddbe7ad01bf3cea327bbe38ec12c40ebf983e

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f2081317822f2ebdcb56fdd465955dd0334927a65fc3840687e2a54fa3ea5c71",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.stat-mech",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2010-07-16T18:45:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "da905e7ca749b57cb0a7e8544744dc15192b2c4acdb811cf0b8d1c0a2c628a0d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1007.2827",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}