Pith Number

pith:ZKXTSNFJ

pith:2014:ZKXTSNFJPROEYULSQ2ZVMUFSZQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Low-Complexity Improved Successive Cancellation Decoder for Polar Codes

Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming, Andreas Burg, Orion Afisiadis

arxiv:1412.5501 v1 · 2014-12-17 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZKXTSNFJPROEYULSQ2ZVMUFSZQ}

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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	2026-05-18T02:31:02.850959Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

caaf3934a97c5c4c517286b35650b2cc17a33b6df3ec99f3b4c36b301f2f15af

Aliases

arxiv: 1412.5501 · arxiv_version: 1412.5501v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1412.5501 · pith_short_12: ZKXTSNFJPROE · pith_short_16: ZKXTSNFJPROEYULS · pith_short_8: ZKXTSNFJ

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/ZKXTSNFJPROEYULSQ2ZVMUFSZQ \
  | 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: caaf3934a97c5c4c517286b35650b2cc17a33b6df3ec99f3b4c36b301f2f15af

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "94d1dc97bec1e708a61534fee8f705c255626b4555e0c8a289f7bc07fd818e92",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2014-12-17T17:48:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fcc799468d4650e488d39c31575a1ab5167e5937db917868bf8dfa13763ecbcb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1412.5501",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}