Pith Number

pith:WXN2U3KS

pith:2014:WXN2U3KSXITUS7GFTORSVTMNBU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Universal Quantization for Separate Encodings and Joint Decoding of Correlated Sources

Avraham Reani, Neri Merhav

arxiv:1411.3597 v1 · 2014-11-13 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WXN2U3KSXITUS7GFTORSVTMNBU}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T02:37:43.382454Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b5dbaa6d52ba27497cc59ba32acd8d0d3b7a773b74dcd142037759db764de0dc

Aliases

arxiv: 1411.3597 · arxiv_version: 1411.3597v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1411.3597 · pith_short_12: WXN2U3KSXITU · pith_short_16: WXN2U3KSXITUS7GF · pith_short_8: WXN2U3KS

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/WXN2U3KSXITUS7GFTORSVTMNBU \
  | 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: b5dbaa6d52ba27497cc59ba32acd8d0d3b7a773b74dcd142037759db764de0dc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1a53ce6d79f61cd38e46eb0881521e70cff637c43eed441b11fc6fc7f2ed0aeb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2014-11-13T16:04:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8aaf887d7164dc9927b0d35303b3fe9c410101bdb817a4e2f94b8d8d2de46f07"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1411.3597",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}