Pith Number

pith:6YWXLBLH

pith:2023:6YWXLBLHPVNDS3X5EC2IQCM2DN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

New Prophet Inequalities via Poissonization and Sharding

Elfarouk Harb

arxiv:2307.00971 v4 · 2023-07-03 · cs.DS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6YWXLBLHPVNDS3X5EC2IQCM2DN}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T08:04:13.184250Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f62d7585677d5a396efd20b488099a1b6b80e86d16e5e70c0349ad926dc4dc65

Aliases

arxiv: 2307.00971 · arxiv_version: 2307.00971v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2307.00971 · pith_short_12: 6YWXLBLHPVND · pith_short_16: 6YWXLBLHPVNDS3X5 · pith_short_8: 6YWXLBLH

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/6YWXLBLHPVNDS3X5EC2IQCM2DN \
  | 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: f62d7585677d5a396efd20b488099a1b6b80e86d16e5e70c0349ad926dc4dc65

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a23b771e6cb642e498549352acc9236a48131364999b015bb24361d1be281021",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2023-07-03T12:44:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7731dbd94a8582deb61aadf5e286bb144c696c1a84db52f69308cee3b2aa8f17"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2307.00971",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}