Pith Number

pith:WXIUYWP4

pith:2016:WXIUYWP43VR66V7YSCYILGXA5B

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Linear Network Coding over Rings, Part II: Vector Codes and Non-Commutative Alphabets

Joseph Connelly, Kenneth Zeger

arxiv:1608.01737 v2 · 2016-08-05 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WXIUYWP43VR66V7YSCYILGXA5B}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T00:24:54.508714Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b5d14c59fcdd63ef57f890b0859ae0e857ea527c1ffb6c3a07fb6f9040222d3a

Aliases

arxiv: 1608.01737 · arxiv_version: 1608.01737v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1608.01737 · pith_short_12: WXIUYWP43VR6 · pith_short_16: WXIUYWP43VR66V7Y · pith_short_8: WXIUYWP4

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/WXIUYWP43VR66V7YSCYILGXA5B \
  | 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: b5d14c59fcdd63ef57f890b0859ae0e857ea527c1ffb6c3a07fb6f9040222d3a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a0a705e0ad22d0bf542ad3fe69851bf03086c0c668d54157f1c776d1499ad795",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2016-08-05T01:52:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "eb0c039d1d1aac4c5ee0c4296840732e5a92a3c5042ad23449db3c04b5841266"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1608.01737",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}