Pith Number

pith:7HWM45WG

pith:2011:7HWM45WGNW7T2SMUNXDOMGNHO5

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Information recovery from observations by a random walk having jump distribution with exponential tails

Andrew Hart, Fabio Machado, Heinrich Matzinger

arxiv:1110.6853 v1 · 2011-10-31 · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7HWM45WGNW7T2SMUNXDOMGNHO5}

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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	2026-05-18T04:09:54.057481Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f9ecce76c66dbf3d49946dc6e619a77765a22d848580c912da191cd59b8f821d

Aliases

arxiv: 1110.6853 · arxiv_version: 1110.6853v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1110.6853 · pith_short_12: 7HWM45WGNW7T · pith_short_16: 7HWM45WGNW7T2SMU · pith_short_8: 7HWM45WG

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/7HWM45WGNW7T2SMUNXDOMGNHO5 \
  | 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: f9ecce76c66dbf3d49946dc6e619a77765a22d848580c912da191cd59b8f821d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f43187c8bb0278dacbb3a3852ecd0eb9dec88789e667739e16181e5ab4acfe3a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2011-10-31T16:29:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5c9ad5dc583a52050e6cd5b55065944de1d2972e82b37d17b1e675ff318d307b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1110.6853",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}