Pith Number

pith:XBFL3VXH

pith:2011:XBFL3VXHQARNDDTEHDFTA6TE7U

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Reliability in Source Coding with Side Information

Aaron B. Wagner, Benjamin G. Kelly

arxiv:1109.0923 v1 · 2011-09-05 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XBFL3VXHQARNDDTEHDFTA6TE7U}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T02:21:36.928393Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b84abdd6e78022d18e6438cb307a64fd1829976776dc78e1df2d21aa295df6d9

Aliases

arxiv: 1109.0923 · arxiv_version: 1109.0923v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1109.0923 · pith_short_12: XBFL3VXHQARN · pith_short_16: XBFL3VXHQARNDDTE · pith_short_8: XBFL3VXH

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/XBFL3VXHQARNDDTEHDFTA6TE7U \
  | 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: b84abdd6e78022d18e6438cb307a64fd1829976776dc78e1df2d21aa295df6d9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a2c39b073fbe8e9261e6ac8058f0b972f5399676d57ceb1f6692782b457125f6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2011-09-05T15:02:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ce0b46e52ce2968aa6013edbb6dc056a2e916ca7f655b385ff4ac93b26d7f135"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1109.0923",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}