Pith Number

pith:VYI74ZWR

pith:2018:VYI74ZWRWMX7GCLW7C4SMNXF2R

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A Distance Between Channels: the average error of mismatched channels

Marcelo Firer, Rafael G. L. D'Oliveira

arxiv:1802.02049 v1 · 2018-02-06 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VYI74ZWRWMX7GCLW7C4SMNXF2R}

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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	2026-05-18T00:24:11.059338Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ae11fe66d1b32ff30976f8b92636e5d47a22b2f609ae834381e2f51a4f830976

Aliases

arxiv: 1802.02049 · arxiv_version: 1802.02049v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1802.02049 · pith_short_12: VYI74ZWRWMX7 · pith_short_16: VYI74ZWRWMX7GCLW · pith_short_8: VYI74ZWR

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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/VYI74ZWRWMX7GCLW7C4SMNXF2R \
  | 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: ae11fe66d1b32ff30976f8b92636e5d47a22b2f609ae834381e2f51a4f830976

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6fbd63906d105bae04c916bf997d3f866cf2be0c3fb82b50039631ae88619e1c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2018-02-06T16:33:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "32159372896238aef6b145bd67697bbdf9d51d9d8c4e73cd4bc53f97eea538f0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1802.02049",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}