Pith Number

pith:YXFB2J2S

pith:2016:YXFB2J2SFAHZFUU27SNXTOUJ5J

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Comments on "the return of information theory"

Baltasar Tranc\'on y Widemann, Christina Bogner

arxiv:1602.05056 v1 · 2016-02-16 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YXFB2J2SFAHZFUU27SNXTOUJ5J}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:20:37.607850Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c5ca1d2752280f92d29afc9b79ba89ea5c71ae8ca1b1b9f27f7a0bb128535931

Aliases

arxiv: 1602.05056 · arxiv_version: 1602.05056v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1602.05056 · pith_short_12: YXFB2J2SFAHZ · pith_short_16: YXFB2J2SFAHZFUU2 · pith_short_8: YXFB2J2S

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/YXFB2J2SFAHZFUU27SNXTOUJ5J \
  | 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: c5ca1d2752280f92d29afc9b79ba89ea5c71ae8ca1b1b9f27f7a0bb128535931

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fd81bc793ad946ff2f494754071cedbd0181f82c830891305ddf4c21316897c1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2016-02-16T15:29:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8ffcfbd365e42aae018dce6609223992a050d271988e90dfa0552f646c774f9b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1602.05056",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}