Pith Number

pith:QU4ZMLZF

pith:2017:QU4ZMLZFXWMWETW4TUE6OLQC7Q

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The Time-Invariant Multidimensional Gaussian Sequential Rate-Distortion Problem Revisited

Photios A. Stavrou, Sekhar Tatikonda, Takashi Tanaka

arxiv:1711.09853 v1 · 2017-11-27 · math.OC · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QU4ZMLZFXWMWETW4TUE6OLQC7Q}

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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	2026-05-18T00:29:34.316755Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8539962f25bd99624edc9d09e72e02fc33ab11556137720cc7da2c32600350bc

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.09853 · arxiv_version: 1711.09853v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.09853 · pith_short_12: QU4ZMLZFXWMW · pith_short_16: QU4ZMLZFXWMWETW4 · pith_short_8: QU4ZMLZF

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QU4ZMLZFXWMWETW4TUE6OLQC7Q \
  | 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: 8539962f25bd99624edc9d09e72e02fc33ab11556137720cc7da2c32600350bc

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b53f2ab71aa8aafeffb63a102ff165a2eda553c0b8f3b291352aef694dbe412e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-27T17:48:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "39242f2294b7bfc8ddb1bc603d693311d249565d3672d0a8c097f21cf6cec58b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.09853",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}