Pith Number

pith:3PNTEYJV

pith:2017:3PNTEYJVHHS3DRNZTIPTYS76NY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Asymmetric R\'enyi Problem

Abram Magner, Michael Drmota, Wojciech Szpankowski

arxiv:1711.01528 v1 · 2017-11-05 · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3PNTEYJVHHS3DRNZTIPTYS76NY}

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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	2026-05-18T00:31:17.538554Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dbdb32613539e5b1c5b99a1f3c4bfe6e12e37e0f94f124de82ee86ee7b5e0cbd

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.01528 · arxiv_version: 1711.01528v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.01528 · pith_short_12: 3PNTEYJVHHS3 · pith_short_16: 3PNTEYJVHHS3DRNZ · pith_short_8: 3PNTEYJV

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/3PNTEYJVHHS3DRNZTIPTYS76NY \
  | 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: dbdb32613539e5b1c5b99a1f3c4bfe6e12e37e0f94f124de82ee86ee7b5e0cbd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c4bce98c89043fb8750679c8d374d8925bc5af52cff0b1392c586cc3f33c323e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-05T04:01:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d23cd0b92964b60e874ccfad7f9afc357e1f78a1ecfdc89fae613d152e595862"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.01528",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}