Pith Number

pith:WQEXBEEG

pith:2017:WQEXBEEGJNUXICDJXXLMGFLMA3

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Shannon Shakes Hands with Chernoff: Big Data Viewpoint On Channel Information Measures

Jiaxun Lu, Pingyi Fan, Rui She, Shanyun Liu

arxiv:1701.03237 v1 · 2017-01-12 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WQEXBEEGJNUXICDJXXLMGFLMA3}

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4 Citations 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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:52:58.147360Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b4097090864b69740869bdd6c3156c06de93a4cc0ab76fe6576cbd30db43af3c

Aliases

arxiv: 1701.03237 · arxiv_version: 1701.03237v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1701.03237 · pith_short_12: WQEXBEEGJNUX · pith_short_16: WQEXBEEGJNUXICDJ · pith_short_8: WQEXBEEG

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/WQEXBEEGJNUXICDJXXLMGFLMA3 \
  | 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: b4097090864b69740869bdd6c3156c06de93a4cc0ab76fe6576cbd30db43af3c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3ff9c8ab8ff8cb3d3449173da9adeae726cc74a7fc93e51e372622b389da7ebc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-01-12T05:26:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bd3a350cdd485803d365caa4179b61107762bfcb4b4e4a5f8a37d1b2e2e027c2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1701.03237",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}