Pith Number

pith:ZG5WEOQM

pith:2015:ZG5WEOQMO2GMZHBVRPTI54VLCA

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Multi-Version Coding - An Information Theoretic Perspective of Consistent Distributed Storage

Viveck R. Cadambe, Zhiying Wang

arxiv:1506.00684 v2 · 2015-06-01 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZG5WEOQMO2GMZHBVRPTI54VLCA}

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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	2026-05-18T01:29:54.082082Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c9bb623a0c768ccc9c358be68ef2ab102120c113f44347a8f4c523e22acc3839

Aliases

arxiv: 1506.00684 · arxiv_version: 1506.00684v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1506.00684 · pith_short_12: ZG5WEOQMO2GM · pith_short_16: ZG5WEOQMO2GMZHBV · pith_short_8: ZG5WEOQM

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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/ZG5WEOQMO2GMZHBVRPTI54VLCA \
  | 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: c9bb623a0c768ccc9c358be68ef2ab102120c113f44347a8f4c523e22acc3839

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "df79dd61932ab99e05cf6b3daa5ff1b8542b3c8d724f77027b3ca18b5f137da9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2015-06-01T21:39:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3a3c988a88902d5feb0fd8fc98dba455294c6be02caccc8768c7f431dfb37092"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1506.00684",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}