Pith Number

pith:XA4ZY2OV

pith:2016:XA4ZY2OVIV3KA6ZITL4LRUZ5C2

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On Efficient Decoding and Design of Sparse Random Linear Network Codes

Steven D. Blostein, Wai-Yip Chan, Ye Li

arxiv:1604.05573 v1 · 2016-04-19 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XA4ZY2OVIV3KA6ZITL4LRUZ5C2}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:16:38.348215Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b8399c69d54576a07b289af8b8d33d16beb6352d69285976f96900121e5b7af2

Aliases

arxiv: 1604.05573 · arxiv_version: 1604.05573v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1604.05573 · pith_short_12: XA4ZY2OVIV3K · pith_short_16: XA4ZY2OVIV3KA6ZI · pith_short_8: XA4ZY2OV

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/XA4ZY2OVIV3KA6ZITL4LRUZ5C2 \
  | 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: b8399c69d54576a07b289af8b8d33d16beb6352d69285976f96900121e5b7af2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2016-04-19T14:05:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "264c9384f9662e517c149d4927565e1c7e9aa68abe5e00a71e55c690178adb3a"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}