Pith Number

pith:7LDXTW3G

pith:2018:7LDXTW3GB2LYMKAULPPGBNDOTL

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Multivariate approximation in total variation using local dependence

A. D. Barbour, A. Xia

arxiv:1807.06715 v1 · 2018-07-18 · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7LDXTW3GB2LYMKAULPPGBNDOTL}

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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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First computed	2026-05-18T00:10:26.043210Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fac779db660e978628145bde60b46e9ae0597fb903d6aea313e2c7396d0c554a

Aliases

arxiv: 1807.06715 · arxiv_version: 1807.06715v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1807.06715 · pith_short_12: 7LDXTW3GB2LY · pith_short_16: 7LDXTW3GB2LYMKAU · pith_short_8: 7LDXTW3G

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/7LDXTW3GB2LYMKAULPPGBNDOTL \
  | 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: fac779db660e978628145bde60b46e9ae0597fb903d6aea313e2c7396d0c554a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d96eace1025695549663f829732453a8e05d06b6e7e0ab5a56fbe8211c578dfd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2018-07-18T00:25:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b6aebe00bbd1c1b49c206408236d8c6a8f1841177a54d7b32006fdb0ce87ff67"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1807.06715",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}