Pith Number

pith:PJAMQTIX

pith:2014:PJAMQTIXWKKFESFEBYTPISDS5M

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Simplified Erasure/List Decoding

Neri Merhav, Nir Weinberger

arxiv:1412.1964 v1 · 2014-12-05 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PJAMQTIXWKKFESFEBYTPISDS5M}

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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	2026-05-18T00:58:11.185727Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7a40c84d17b2945248a40e26f44872eb08a40b01ba9bd19fdae58e760ad00c18

Aliases

arxiv: 1412.1964 · arxiv_version: 1412.1964v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1412.1964 · pith_short_12: PJAMQTIXWKKF · pith_short_16: PJAMQTIXWKKFESFE · pith_short_8: PJAMQTIX

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/PJAMQTIXWKKFESFEBYTPISDS5M \
  | 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: 7a40c84d17b2945248a40e26f44872eb08a40b01ba9bd19fdae58e760ad00c18

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "09d4f8e20be3c6643772650fdf6e5f94aab2f2fb8f5a7e8074e0128a1daa714b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2014-12-05T11:42:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0e6138558a88149f833bbefe3ae0b89665023251d84bd296d8009884e1c7f678"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1412.1964",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}