Pith Number

pith:7CMFUVAY

pith:2018:7CMFUVAYW5DXWVWOPIPUCR76JJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Dimension-Independent discriminant between distributions

Alfred O. Hero, Brandon Oselio, Salimeh Yasaei Sekeh

arxiv:1802.04497 v1 · 2018-02-13 · cs.IT · math.IT · math.ST · stat.TH

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7CMFUVAYW5DXWVWOPIPUCR76JJ}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:23:44.062396Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f8985a5418b7477b56ce7a1f4147fe4a4ab9f460a19d95789931950109a38127

Aliases

arxiv: 1802.04497 · arxiv_version: 1802.04497v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1802.04497 · pith_short_12: 7CMFUVAYW5DX · pith_short_16: 7CMFUVAYW5DXWVWO · pith_short_8: 7CMFUVAY

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/7CMFUVAYW5DXWVWOPIPUCR76JJ \
  | 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: f8985a5418b7477b56ce7a1f4147fe4a4ab9f460a19d95789931950109a38127

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0160656fb6b4e84f249e0a911db054cce20ffec34744d0a57f3147859d34443f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT",
      "math.ST",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2018-02-13T08:02:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "edbabb2b508c3320bd413bb3bc583f885f1bbc04edb5ee1df884927e7a592483"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1802.04497",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}