Pith Number

pith:6JZNOM4F

pith:2017:6JZNOM4FHZR6HAL43UZYCMR4XP

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Extreme Value Analysis Without the Largest Values: What Can Be Done?

Gennady Samorodnitsky, Jingjing Zou, Richard A. Davis

arxiv:1712.07381 v2 · 2017-12-20 · math.ST · stat.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6JZNOM4FHZR6HAL43UZYCMR4XP}

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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	2026-05-17T23:57:59.602520Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f272d733853e63e3817cdd3381323cbbcfe12aca322f0777d1d788e1d28a5468

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.07381 · arxiv_version: 1712.07381v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.07381 · pith_short_12: 6JZNOM4FHZR6 · pith_short_16: 6JZNOM4FHZR6HAL4 · pith_short_8: 6JZNOM4F

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/6JZNOM4FHZR6HAL43UZYCMR4XP \
  | 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: f272d733853e63e3817cdd3381323cbbcfe12aca322f0777d1d788e1d28a5468

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3678f3e5f53543d7e958f91bbe38ac756c52178b5b2d26751ac9b948d4f47270",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-20T09:41:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "734aef413768d0bb155b9f3724254350fb3104376cfc725b4f862da29c1e49d6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.07381",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}