Pith Number

pith:74P5MOXT

pith:2016:74P5MOXTDLG67XQDXDFEVBN6G5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A note on R\'enyi's "record" problem and Engel's series

Lulu Fang, Min Wu

arxiv:1607.03173 v3 · 2016-07-11 · math.ST · stat.TH

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{74P5MOXTDLG67XQDXDFEVBN6G5}

Prints a linked badge after your title and injects PDF metadata. Compiles on arXiv. Learn more · Embed verified badge

Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T01:10:23.126709Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ff1fd63af31acdefde03b8ca4a85be376f8afac04e67e664229efdf8e0c6c8fe

Aliases

arxiv: 1607.03173 · arxiv_version: 1607.03173v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1607.03173 · pith_short_12: 74P5MOXTDLG6 · pith_short_16: 74P5MOXTDLG67XQD · pith_short_8: 74P5MOXT

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/74P5MOXTDLG67XQDXDFEVBN6G5 \
  | 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: ff1fd63af31acdefde03b8ca4a85be376f8afac04e67e664229efdf8e0c6c8fe

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3a00b1af12a9b35c7b006c76c9186d11264a62a51156c15c2d7a970b028a575e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2016-07-11T21:33:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bd838a746f78169248f586d74a63a7df350dc7a330523cd9f7906978d1292ef7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1607.03173",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}