Pith Number

pith:Z46SPM4U

pith:2015:Z46SPM4U4KNRHGPIT32A6MBODN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Indirect Rate-Distortion Function of a Binary i.i.d Source

Alon Kipnis, Andrea J. Goldsmith, Stefano Rini

arxiv:1505.04875 v2 · 2015-05-19 · cs.IT · math.IT · stat.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Z46SPM4U4KNRHGPIT32A6MBODN}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T01:57:41.575092Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cf3d27b394e29b1399e89ef40f302e1b647460b4017d0bf07ee024a2d6ae5044

Aliases

arxiv: 1505.04875 · arxiv_version: 1505.04875v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1505.04875 · pith_short_12: Z46SPM4U4KNR · pith_short_16: Z46SPM4U4KNRHGPI · pith_short_8: Z46SPM4U

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/Z46SPM4U4KNRHGPIT32A6MBODN \
  | 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: cf3d27b394e29b1399e89ef40f302e1b647460b4017d0bf07ee024a2d6ae5044

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2e308505aebb5baa6fc187cc3abe11fb307be4a9c22fefaad182876c6a4e0847",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT",
      "stat.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2015-05-19T05:00:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bf9ae6ff1dd18b06764519972745524240fdd1b5153caaa23cb080416e8a80fe"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1505.04875",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}