Pith Number

pith:A5QJETVO

pith:2013:A5QJETVORNAFKIMKYQI4UMSJRS

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The potential and perils of preprocessing: Building new foundations

Alexander W. Blocker, Xiao-Li Meng

arxiv:1309.6790 v1 · 2013-09-26 · math.ST · stat.ME · stat.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{A5QJETVORNAFKIMKYQI4UMSJRS}

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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	2026-05-18T03:12:10.511547Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0760924eae8b4055218ac411ca32498ca7ebed3607101c86038580a82d79908c

Aliases

arxiv: 1309.6790 · arxiv_version: 1309.6790v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1309.6790 · pith_short_12: A5QJETVORNAF · pith_short_16: A5QJETVORNAFKIMK · pith_short_8: A5QJETVO

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/A5QJETVORNAFKIMKYQI4UMSJRS \
  | 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: 0760924eae8b4055218ac411ca32498ca7ebed3607101c86038580a82d79908c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d1a1fb1d64a49bfe5119ca1ebfe39003bb032c9272db54149cb72d80d1d296b9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ME",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2013-09-26T10:50:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "03652fd6977930771bbabb748ff3cd63bc8d51fd3c97260e1004ae8258a2bc6f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1309.6790",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}