Pith Number

pith:5HVKKDI3

pith:2017:5HVKKDI3ZGCZEHR46FL65BH5JY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Chernoff Information between Gaussian Trees

Binglin Li, Jian Yuan, Shuangqing Wei, Yue Wang

arxiv:1712.09742 v1 · 2017-12-28 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5HVKKDI3ZGCZEHR46FL65BH5JY}

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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	2026-05-18T00:15:19.048437Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e9eaa50d1bc985921e3cf157ee84fd4e1de8a3d50a0410ded1818fef05b7e022

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.09742 · arxiv_version: 1712.09742v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.09742 · pith_short_12: 5HVKKDI3ZGCZ · pith_short_16: 5HVKKDI3ZGCZEHR4 · pith_short_8: 5HVKKDI3

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/5HVKKDI3ZGCZEHR46FL65BH5JY \
  | 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: e9eaa50d1bc985921e3cf157ee84fd4e1de8a3d50a0410ded1818fef05b7e022

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8ef5ab67ab9ca5d05a5ea82b537db7fac65f0f933f3260fa7f9d23963e3ca17e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-28T03:20:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c10812297d776ed6d35e52089f4ab501796c6d631d49dfac2f444bfbf57398b0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.09742",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}