Pith Number

pith:YXBPIQMB

pith:2008:YXBPIQMBST5X63Y6TAORPGZNGG

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Analysis of Verification-based Decoding on the q-ary Symmetric Channel for Large q

Fan Zhang, Henry D. Pfister

arxiv:0806.3243 v6 · 2008-06-19 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YXBPIQMBST5X63Y6TAORPGZNGG}

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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	2026-05-18T02:24:57.308573Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c5c2f4418194fb7f6f1e981d179b2d319a324517048ab210d743388165dba096

Aliases

arxiv: 0806.3243 · arxiv_version: 0806.3243v6 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0806.3243 · pith_short_12: YXBPIQMBST5X · pith_short_16: YXBPIQMBST5X63Y6 · pith_short_8: YXBPIQMB

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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/YXBPIQMBST5X63Y6TAORPGZNGG \
  | 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: c5c2f4418194fb7f6f1e981d179b2d319a324517048ab210d743388165dba096

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7ee5be4f89b259b65379e381021e8a02a1c21859a295ff004ec017ea5d6e8d13",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2008-06-19T17:22:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3d5cf1ab204f4089f0778e3c1794a3cefc0c4808c7ace033de35de48793c66dd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0806.3243",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 6
  }
}