Pith Number

pith:Y2375N4Y

pith:2018:Y2375N4YTIHKXLDDJ344AWFTM3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

An MDS-PIR Capacity-Achieving Protocol for Distributed Storage Using Non-MDS Linear Codes

Alexandre Graell i Amat, Eirik Rosnes, Hsuan-Yin Lin, Siddhartha Kumar

arxiv:1801.04923 v2 · 2018-01-13 · cs.IT · math.IT

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:14:34.107875Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c6b7feb7989a0eabac634ef9c058b366ea6027353c34b6b99ac89d9beda40c43

Aliases

arxiv: 1801.04923 · arxiv_version: 1801.04923v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1801.04923 · pith_short_12: Y2375N4YTIHK · pith_short_16: Y2375N4YTIHKXLDD · pith_short_8: Y2375N4Y

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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/Y2375N4YTIHKXLDDJ344AWFTM3 \
  | 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: c6b7feb7989a0eabac634ef9c058b366ea6027353c34b6b99ac89d9beda40c43

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7036067a9015e8826b7f8c7a4ec02c8d81fe5f1eb41f491df1d996c44b35f8fe",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2018-01-13T11:31:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a93a5c55d3b9c04ddc7e303a90167f58066ede308a1c5c7b9509506a067d3327"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1801.04923",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}