Pith Number

pith:XBMHRKFS

pith:2011:XBMHRKFS4EKTTMZ2TJNJ5O7KH4

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Short-Message Quantize-Forward Network Coding

Gerhard Kramer, Jie Hou

arxiv:1102.4930 v2 · 2011-02-24 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XBMHRKFS4EKTTMZ2TJNJ5O7KH4}

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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	2026-05-18T04:22:49.764461Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b85878a8b2e11539b33a9a5a9ebbea3f38d4c11674a02f7303b775e6006fe94b

Aliases

arxiv: 1102.4930 · arxiv_version: 1102.4930v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1102.4930 · pith_short_12: XBMHRKFS4EKT · pith_short_16: XBMHRKFS4EKTTMZ2 · pith_short_8: XBMHRKFS

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/XBMHRKFS4EKTTMZ2TJNJ5O7KH4 \
  | 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: b85878a8b2e11539b33a9a5a9ebbea3f38d4c11674a02f7303b775e6006fe94b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fc283df326b14831e02a33a24a26ceb420313d2a7fca993059187197af95499a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2011-02-24T08:50:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "01526e8c61228030057fc0b3cc33de2a2c2e74d313fbb4dba185519cc67cb734"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1102.4930",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}