Pith Number

pith:2PFY4IUM

pith:2017:2PFY4IUMGRJRAGS3DDQ7F7NQFT

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Note on A. Barbour's paper on Stein's method for diffusion approximations

Andrew B. Duncan, Mikolaj J. Kasprzak, Sebastian J. Vollmer

arxiv:1702.03130 v2 · 2017-02-10 · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2PFY4IUMGRJRAGS3DDQ7F7NQFT}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:46:18.512145Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d3cb8e228c3453101a5b18e1f2fdb02ce0ec6dcdec7f639d9c41b4cc71a53632

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.03130 · arxiv_version: 1702.03130v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.03130 · pith_short_12: 2PFY4IUMGRJR · pith_short_16: 2PFY4IUMGRJRAGS3 · pith_short_8: 2PFY4IUM

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/2PFY4IUMGRJRAGS3DDQ7F7NQFT \
  | 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: d3cb8e228c3453101a5b18e1f2fdb02ce0ec6dcdec7f639d9c41b4cc71a53632

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bc6fcd0aca083a99e51ed6041858d892ee2a92720ff716af520d8cbd796ed222",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-10T11:11:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1d993db40afe3e96af914b8a3ef3a0ff725382f51305b376c333344c6e287a97"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.03130",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}