Pith Number

pith:3M5UGCIY

pith:2012:3M5UGCIYLUFDRWTCC67LRR2JRC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Finite approximations to coherent choice

Matthias C. M. Troffaes

arxiv:1203.0919 v1 · 2012-03-05 · stat.CO

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3M5UGCIYLUFDRWTCC67LRR2JRC}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T04:00:50.103094Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

db3b4309185d0a38da6217beb8c74988a6834b7ef65d4bea4d3a5bb0c7db9710

Aliases

arxiv: 1203.0919 · arxiv_version: 1203.0919v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1203.0919 · pith_short_12: 3M5UGCIYLUFD · pith_short_16: 3M5UGCIYLUFDRWTC · pith_short_8: 3M5UGCIY

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/3M5UGCIYLUFDRWTCC67LRR2JRC \
  | 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: db3b4309185d0a38da6217beb8c74988a6834b7ef65d4bea4d3a5bb0c7db9710

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1948fcdb2549a6ebf6c2530b5847670f31028d2f9747bf3eb943494f0b626c22",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2012-03-05T13:58:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "75e7ef6ad2362e3046f0d12895fedadda4de6187f555e3d05ed554b8301550a8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1203.0919",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}