Pith Number

pith:A555EU7C

pith:2018:A555EU7CZNECRRRSJQ5YPVVVYS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

An extremal property of the normal distribution, with a discrete analog

Adrien Saumard, Erwan Hillion, Oliver Johnson

arxiv:1806.05577 v1 · 2018-06-14 · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{A555EU7CZNECRRRSJQ5YPVVVYS}

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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	2026-05-17T23:46:46.316154Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

077bd253e2cb4828c6324c3b87d6b5c48b4917d5c22e80bca5b7a43ef0c3744d

Aliases

arxiv: 1806.05577 · arxiv_version: 1806.05577v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1806.05577 · pith_short_12: A555EU7CZNEC · pith_short_16: A555EU7CZNECRRRS · pith_short_8: A555EU7C

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/A555EU7CZNECRRRSJQ5YPVVVYS \
  | 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: 077bd253e2cb4828c6324c3b87d6b5c48b4917d5c22e80bca5b7a43ef0c3744d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "82900a2070c44cc55dc8effe46a9afc3107718eb6b042a220672dd03d820e0bb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2018-06-14T14:36:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a53eac87b2571fdc42f0dc90a02083d51c25e3894c4b779d0a09fbc68fce17e8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1806.05577",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}