Pith Number

pith:2JUMIYF5

pith:2015:2JUMIYF5SM2HHVNE6K66SVWWUJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

An unexpected encounter with Cauchy and L\'evy

Natesh S. Pillai, Xiao-Li Meng

arxiv:1505.01957 v2 · 2015-05-08 · math.ST · math.PR · stat.TH

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2JUMIYF5SM2HHVNE6K66SVWWUJ}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:29:54.257856Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d268c460bd933473d5a4f2bde956d6a24432cf318c7602fd2a4b26158ceeef66

Aliases

arxiv: 1505.01957 · arxiv_version: 1505.01957v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1505.01957 · pith_short_12: 2JUMIYF5SM2H · pith_short_16: 2JUMIYF5SM2HHVNE · pith_short_8: 2JUMIYF5

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/2JUMIYF5SM2HHVNE6K66SVWWUJ \
  | 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: d268c460bd933473d5a4f2bde956d6a24432cf318c7602fd2a4b26158ceeef66

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7d58c8c3043120ddc4a88e0ae251c0f89b283f3b23214c072f99e9b09ba31ecd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.PR",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2015-05-08T08:52:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "673e89f2985d22fa6f5fa767fbceec018c9b149d6ed5ad44b0c84e66daa12e37"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1505.01957",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}