Pith Number

pith:5AUHE3I2

pith:2014:5AUHE3I2YOLQWJIVWDDQPSTSDC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Universal Scheme for Optimal Search and Stop

Sirin Nitinawarat, Venugopal V. Veeravalli

arxiv:1412.4870 v1 · 2014-12-16 · math.ST · stat.TH

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5AUHE3I2YOLQWJIVWDDQPSTSDC}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T02:31:10.263666Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e828726d1ac3970b2515b0c707ca7218b5491e2d4ebae5ceb21b27e119a2b982

Aliases

arxiv: 1412.4870 · arxiv_version: 1412.4870v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1412.4870 · pith_short_12: 5AUHE3I2YOLQ · pith_short_16: 5AUHE3I2YOLQWJIV · pith_short_8: 5AUHE3I2

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/5AUHE3I2YOLQWJIVWDDQPSTSDC \
  | 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: e828726d1ac3970b2515b0c707ca7218b5491e2d4ebae5ceb21b27e119a2b982

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2ab23ea5f792d60f0d7f8ad886e20791cb96d71fbefd687e402b42e5d34fed0e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2014-12-16T03:49:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0c496b8c32aa87fee98270c1ebc93846bfd30d02eea5362dcd491143cc3e495d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1412.4870",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}