Pith Number

pith:2HU2SSY2

pith:2026:2HU2SSY2S27FW6UYJK5VFJL5RH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A New Look at the Classical Estimation Problem

Paul W. Vos

arxiv:2607.24890 v1 · 2026-07-27 · math.ST · cs.IT · math.IT · stat.TH

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2HU2SSY2S27FW6UYJK5VFJL5RH}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-29T00:24:50.133069Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d1e9a94b1a96be5b7a984abb52a57d89d257629c0b3a66030794c4e3fc87c962

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.24890 · arxiv_version: 2607.24890v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.24890 · pith_short_12: 2HU2SSY2S27F · pith_short_16: 2HU2SSY2S27FW6UY · pith_short_8: 2HU2SSY2

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/2HU2SSY2S27FW6UYJK5VFJL5RH \
  | 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: d1e9a94b1a96be5b7a984abb52a57d89d257629c0b3a66030794c4e3fc87c962

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7a887881be7e964ea895d5872b46827b83e12679b242222dee1657e1351c1718",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-27T13:52:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "504f295257889cfc85d743c47ffe430b9ac00588bc86f8af64e5a56ecee19fce"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.24890",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}