Pith Number

pith:KIUW4G4I

pith:2017:KIUW4G4ISG6NHE7TYY4JA7P5KB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Code Constructions based on Reed-Solomon Codes

Martin Bossert, Michael Schelling

arxiv:1706.05830 v1 · 2017-06-19 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KIUW4G4ISG6NHE7TYY4JA7P5KB}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T00:42:08.756214Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

52296e1b8891bcd393f3c638907dfd50722b911da5279dac5bfbfaa951c359f6

Aliases

arxiv: 1706.05830 · arxiv_version: 1706.05830v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1706.05830 · pith_short_12: KIUW4G4ISG6N · pith_short_16: KIUW4G4ISG6NHE7T · pith_short_8: KIUW4G4I

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/KIUW4G4ISG6NHE7TYY4JA7P5KB \
  | 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: 52296e1b8891bcd393f3c638907dfd50722b911da5279dac5bfbfaa951c359f6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3c140e6747c3c9bb27b255bf40a45f21e31925d58c7d5d712a9d23de1272e0ff",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-06-19T08:43:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d815beda768faad4dc7bccf693e91fd76a2a71e650694d7c98393bd64497c3e3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1706.05830",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}