Pith Number

pith:6NCQHHLX

pith:2016:6NCQHHLXND6AWWOEPSSVMNR2R6

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Network coding in undirected graphs is either very helpful or not helpful at all

Ariel Schvartzman, Mark Braverman, Sumegha Garg

arxiv:1608.06545 v1 · 2016-08-23 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6NCQHHLXND6AWWOEPSSVMNR2R6}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:08:13.813955Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f345039d7768fc0b59c47ca556363a8f960c2876852a9e59535f9877ddcbe835

Aliases

arxiv: 1608.06545 · arxiv_version: 1608.06545v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1608.06545 · pith_short_12: 6NCQHHLXND6A · pith_short_16: 6NCQHHLXND6AWWOE · pith_short_8: 6NCQHHLX

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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/6NCQHHLXND6AWWOEPSSVMNR2R6 \
  | 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: f345039d7768fc0b59c47ca556363a8f960c2876852a9e59535f9877ddcbe835

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "97e7f9eaa1c068ff63b441110663a7b8e4c5f54fc3a94fee7f35b9520aee9da6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2016-08-23T15:26:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "92ff877bf51076289f516d10f8c85f0b8e908c86b3acc1efd3da3c9a2703777a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1608.06545",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}