Pith Number

pith:6NVLN2EB

pith:2018:6NVLN2EBLJSRZG4NUACKHPFPY2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Time-dependent P\'olya urn

Nadia Sidorova

arxiv:1807.04844 v1 · 2018-07-12 · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6NVLN2EBLJSRZG4NUACKHPFPY2}

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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	2026-05-18T00:10:49.654970Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f36ab6e8815a651c9b8da004a3bcafc6934c1cd481c50fab06259f5604468b05

Aliases

arxiv: 1807.04844 · arxiv_version: 1807.04844v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1807.04844 · pith_short_12: 6NVLN2EBLJSR · pith_short_16: 6NVLN2EBLJSRZG4N · pith_short_8: 6NVLN2EB

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/6NVLN2EBLJSRZG4NUACKHPFPY2 \
  | 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: f36ab6e8815a651c9b8da004a3bcafc6934c1cd481c50fab06259f5604468b05

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "eb97289a24790958d6755c40633e132dfcd01f08cb467ef05da6c71867fba297",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2018-07-12T22:03:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9a3769dc6f5bbd154cc172697d145e29fa0215e8a760db107adff0d7e2f9285f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1807.04844",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}