Pith Number

pith:M2DHQBB3

pith:2020:M2DHQBB3MDFAEX2KGSDKIRL5I3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Twelvefold Way of Non-Sequential Lossless Compression

Adarsh Muthuveeru-Subramaniam, Alton S. Barbehenn, Bochao Li, Eric A. Wayman, Fan Wu, Hassan Dbouk, Heling Zhang, Ian George, James A. Douglas, John B. Harvill, Kartik K. Kansal, Kelly A. Levick, Kiwook Lee, Lav R. Varshney, Matthew J. Tomei, Peng Xu, Shen Yan, Sourya Basu, Sung Woo Jeon, S. Yagiz Olmez, Taha Ameen ur Rahman, Tanya Veeravalli, Xinan Chen, Xuechao Wang, Yashaswini Murthy, Yibo Zhang, Yibo Zhao (for the Illinois Information Theory Students), Yifan Zhang, Yuncong Geng, Ziyue Li

arxiv:2011.04069 v2 · 2020-11-08 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{M2DHQBB3MDFAEX2KGSDKIRL5I3}

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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.

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First computed	2026-07-05T02:08:20.829507Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

668678043b60ca025f4a3486a4457d46e9d107e3db57e916dd9f6fe60db1fcd8

Aliases

arxiv: 2011.04069 · arxiv_version: 2011.04069v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2011.04069 · pith_short_12: M2DHQBB3MDFA · pith_short_16: M2DHQBB3MDFAEX2K · pith_short_8: M2DHQBB3

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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/M2DHQBB3MDFAEX2KGSDKIRL5I3 \
  | 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: 668678043b60ca025f4a3486a4457d46e9d107e3db57e916dd9f6fe60db1fcd8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4753eb8733d4eee8be2600849eae4494e40f4ca42cac19384c9147b0a26c88f0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2020-11-08T20:14:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b7798235fb9c19e1a45fa8442c91547155c71b1a2db527716506eb4ad5ec34b0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2011.04069",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}