Pith Number

pith:5RVNZ6FO

pith:2013:5RVNZ6FO3OQKFQ7GU7CEQOGEWO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Sampling versus Random Binning for Multiple Descriptions of a Bandlimited Source

Adam Mashiach, Jan Ostergaard, Ram Zamir

arxiv:1311.4634 v1 · 2013-11-19 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5RVNZ6FO3OQKFQ7GU7CEQOGEWO}

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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	2026-05-18T03:06:43.812647Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ec6adcf8aedba0a2c3e6a7c44838c4b39eb9dcffbe5645b8816fde57d90171d5

Aliases

arxiv: 1311.4634 · arxiv_version: 1311.4634v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1311.4634 · pith_short_12: 5RVNZ6FO3OQK · pith_short_16: 5RVNZ6FO3OQKFQ7G · pith_short_8: 5RVNZ6FO

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/5RVNZ6FO3OQKFQ7GU7CEQOGEWO \
  | 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: ec6adcf8aedba0a2c3e6a7c44838c4b39eb9dcffbe5645b8816fde57d90171d5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d43f00c097e2715d1e0c231a020f5b72f1b64e30a13660087952b539c6baaab7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2013-11-19T07:13:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "98ee6fcbfe34544cc849c6fa2ec5bb2a009458881fd7545f777376b3a359d8a2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1311.4634",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}