Pith Number

pith:XNGLXS4G

pith:2010:XNGLXS4GYQCH5WRESZENOT56XE

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On Network Functional Compression

Muriel Medard, Soheil Feizi

arxiv:1011.5496 v2 · 2010-11-24 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XNGLXS4GYQCH5WRESZENOT56XE}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T04:34:27.088266Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bb4cbbcb86c4047eda249648d74fbeb9086a1cf094d8ff2aeb4d8335d44be205

Aliases

arxiv: 1011.5496 · arxiv_version: 1011.5496v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1011.5496 · pith_short_12: XNGLXS4GYQCH · pith_short_16: XNGLXS4GYQCH5WRE · pith_short_8: XNGLXS4G

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/XNGLXS4GYQCH5WRESZENOT56XE \
  | 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: bb4cbbcb86c4047eda249648d74fbeb9086a1cf094d8ff2aeb4d8335d44be205

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f794c21cafb0dd34001d3de0a57042149736f61ab887302f06d8b7f34262c2a5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2010-11-24T20:53:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "53e037b75fa81c8e631980804113a92a07d32803eec0e0d07667c3a5260cc76d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1011.5496",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}