Pith Number

pith:4LVU7FWN

pith:2014:4LVU7FWNEHZCFRAAA4VNYT5EXT

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A characterization of Exponential Distribution and the Sukhatme-Renyi Decomposition of Exponential Maxima

George P. Yanev, Santanu Chakraborty

arxiv:1412.8401 v3 · 2014-12-29 · math.PR · math.ST · stat.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4LVU7FWNEHZCFRAAA4VNYT5EXT}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:23:45.224611Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e2eb4f96cd21f222c400072adc4fa4bcef5aa71fb084b99c8a3db343974f70bd

Aliases

arxiv: 1412.8401 · arxiv_version: 1412.8401v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1412.8401 · pith_short_12: 4LVU7FWNEHZC · pith_short_16: 4LVU7FWNEHZCFRAA · pith_short_8: 4LVU7FWN

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4LVU7FWNEHZCFRAAA4VNYT5EXT \
  | 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: e2eb4f96cd21f222c400072adc4fa4bcef5aa71fb084b99c8a3db343974f70bd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "86c8208573fa599eb94913759ba2d8f5123af086f22723fc6b771d350513f9a1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.ST",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2014-12-29T17:37:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cd8a2a23aa528cf63a292b2b44685bd485d17c5530a12b0bf8b434fad8040e62"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1412.8401",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}