Pith Number

pith:2C6U3SOF

pith:2016:2C6U3SOF7JAJCY6QF3HZ6BVJQR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Self-averaging sequences which fail to converge

Eric Cator, Henk Don

arxiv:1609.07971 v2 · 2016-09-26 · math.PR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2C6U3SOF7JAJCY6QF3HZ6BVJQR}

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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	2026-05-18T01:03:25.992884Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d0bd4dc9c5fa409163d02ecf9f06a9844e0bf70acfdb3aac20e8f5f57c3b6faa

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.07971 · arxiv_version: 1609.07971v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.07971 · pith_short_12: 2C6U3SOF7JAJ · pith_short_16: 2C6U3SOF7JAJCY6Q · pith_short_8: 2C6U3SOF

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/2C6U3SOF7JAJCY6QF3HZ6BVJQR \
  | 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: d0bd4dc9c5fa409163d02ecf9f06a9844e0bf70acfdb3aac20e8f5f57c3b6faa

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "749a345e81d3ae52436075a6f138e4e404db331cc7721f9a6f37925b1a695fbb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-26T13:53:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "637e44adf9615aeed59d7a48ce59a1ea607696ecb38cc5c7afabb3fd158e6f58"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.07971",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}