Pith Number

pith:3B4XY7O5

pith:2018:3B4XY7O53GHLRXMKBVVO2THMUM

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Traffic Light Queues and the Poisson Clumping Heuristic

Guy Louchard, Steven Finch

arxiv:1810.12058 v3 · 2018-10-29 · math.PR · math.HO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3B4XY7O53GHLRXMKBVVO2THMUM}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-17T23:55:54.362872Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d8797c7dddd98eb8dd8a0d6aed4ceca30c0e2bc6524360d8bedcf027307f2db1

Aliases

arxiv: 1810.12058 · arxiv_version: 1810.12058v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1810.12058 · pith_short_12: 3B4XY7O53GHL · pith_short_16: 3B4XY7O53GHLRXMK · pith_short_8: 3B4XY7O5

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/3B4XY7O53GHLRXMKBVVO2THMUM \
  | 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: d8797c7dddd98eb8dd8a0d6aed4ceca30c0e2bc6524360d8bedcf027307f2db1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b6e2aba4598e957da3d9524090f419e7126763f28792d2e80614c910c3a4102c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.HO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2018-10-29T11:12:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9b8a4d2b2b837970be3cf61e293d37dca8db437742bf7618255ec4f2eb39c256"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1810.12058",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}