Pith Number

pith:Z4LHOFZ4

pith:2016:Z4LHOFZ42NRGZ4RNR47Z5SXAVI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the capacity of the binary adversarial wiretap channel

Carol Wang

arxiv:1605.01330 v2 · 2016-05-04 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Z4LHOFZ42NRGZ4RNR47Z5SXAVI}

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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	2026-05-18T01:12:34.215526Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cf1677173cd3626cf22d8f3f9ecae0aa2b76c79d908a43238dc50bb037f881ed

Aliases

arxiv: 1605.01330 · arxiv_version: 1605.01330v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1605.01330 · pith_short_12: Z4LHOFZ42NRG · pith_short_16: Z4LHOFZ42NRGZ4RN · pith_short_8: Z4LHOFZ4

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/Z4LHOFZ42NRGZ4RNR47Z5SXAVI \
  | 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: cf1677173cd3626cf22d8f3f9ecae0aa2b76c79d908a43238dc50bb037f881ed

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d17712bcee4524d273783358e27dd84de5c7bd6279863cec9d01134029c2313b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2016-05-04T16:17:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a7689c8f8f94627e7260bbb6f6a5e5e22424b4c92b316ced73c75a84550a896e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1605.01330",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}