Pith Number

pith:2MEHTQ7X

pith:2019:2MEHTQ7XBY7I4EUL3L6JWNVOQ3

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Estimates for order statistics in terms of quantiles

Alexander E. Litvak, Konstantin Tikhomirov

arxiv:1901.07398 v1 · 2019-01-18 · math.PR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2MEHTQ7XBY7I4EUL3L6JWNVOQ3}

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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	2026-05-17T23:55:47.071713Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d30879c3f70e3e8e128bdafc9b36ae86d07d425b25495f2a0a9d114649acea03

Aliases

arxiv: 1901.07398 · arxiv_version: 1901.07398v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1901.07398 · pith_short_12: 2MEHTQ7XBY7I · pith_short_16: 2MEHTQ7XBY7I4EUL · pith_short_8: 2MEHTQ7X

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/2MEHTQ7XBY7I4EUL3L6JWNVOQ3 \
  | 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: d30879c3f70e3e8e128bdafc9b36ae86d07d425b25495f2a0a9d114649acea03

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "364f351ed7953d905209bf36f4a58754fea11308c09217139918d4c1c8443e26",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2019-01-18T05:12:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "31679631400f60df7c4ce50cb634730a7d379875934fd5c18d09af98103b743c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1901.07398",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}