Pith Number

pith:XEXKC3ZE

pith:2015:XEXKC3ZEF7MDVK43P2QXRRECHC

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Combinatorial Message Sharing and a New Achievable Region for Multiple Descriptions

Emrah Akyol, Kenneth Rose, Kumar Viswanatha

arxiv:1512.01749 v1 · 2015-12-06 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XEXKC3ZEF7MDVK43P2QXRRECHC}

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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	2026-05-18T01:25:10.444035Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b92ea16f242fd83aab9b7ea178c48238a4c35e4970ecfab1526def433d7600f9

Aliases

arxiv: 1512.01749 · arxiv_version: 1512.01749v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1512.01749 · pith_short_12: XEXKC3ZEF7MD · pith_short_16: XEXKC3ZEF7MDVK43 · pith_short_8: XEXKC3ZE

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/XEXKC3ZEF7MDVK43P2QXRRECHC \
  | 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: b92ea16f242fd83aab9b7ea178c48238a4c35e4970ecfab1526def433d7600f9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6bb9eaee3fe5f79dbd6808159dab67edce2c35b838a7e39abded662eff286eb3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2015-12-06T06:20:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2c3ac5fc362acb47a4d6403f113005b481cc7006565c44de1bc7fe75a68a9c20"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1512.01749",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}