Pith Number

pith:SBG3QE4K

pith:2019:SBG3QE4KQ4OKSPHJ6V7WKVVICR

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Reconstruction and Error-Correction Codes for Polymer-Based Data Storage

Olgica Milenkovic, Ryan Gabrys, Srilakshmi Pattabiraman

arxiv:1904.09280 v1 · 2019-04-19 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SBG3QE4KQ4OKSPHJ6V7WKVVICR}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-17T23:48:07.836669Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

904db8138a871ca93ce9f57f6556a8146dad8e423035e50d65c74f9fe8539a17

Aliases

arxiv: 1904.09280 · arxiv_version: 1904.09280v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1904.09280 · pith_short_12: SBG3QE4KQ4OK · pith_short_16: SBG3QE4KQ4OKSPHJ · pith_short_8: SBG3QE4K

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/SBG3QE4KQ4OKSPHJ6V7WKVVICR \
  | 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: 904db8138a871ca93ce9f57f6556a8146dad8e423035e50d65c74f9fe8539a17

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "56fba2e82d12d77d3844a8a227b97455bf19474bc25fe25fc5cb1352d350eaea",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2019-04-19T17:41:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ab71a4671f945f0bbf73c1683bc4128ae0854439b8a79858cdb03e50a8626bbc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1904.09280",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}