Pith Number

pith:5BALMGEM

pith:2013:5BALMGEM5K3PFFLRIXZ7OXHOBT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Letter to the Editor

Heng Lian, Ye Tian, Yuao Hu

arxiv:1312.2364 v1 · 2013-12-09 · stat.AP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5BALMGEM5K3PFFLRIXZ7OXHOBT}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T03:05:10.545781Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e840b6188ceab6f2957145f3f75cee0cd9d356812a1dd68cd5fc0c272bceb415

Aliases

arxiv: 1312.2364 · arxiv_version: 1312.2364v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1312.2364 · pith_short_12: 5BALMGEM5K3P · pith_short_16: 5BALMGEM5K3PFFLR · pith_short_8: 5BALMGEM

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/5BALMGEM5K3PFFLRIXZ7OXHOBT \
  | 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: e840b6188ceab6f2957145f3f75cee0cd9d356812a1dd68cd5fc0c272bceb415

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8972825e1a3ddbc54f32f26db91be5b6f5cb1b16a6dc3979889e9f639d51686a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.AP",
    "submitted_at": "2013-12-09T10:13:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a84ada31965b03ba9ec690daa718d883d36d9326094fa2ecfee98a8e1861f665"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1312.2364",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}