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pith:A6U5VU5J

pith:2014:A6U5VU5JSHJKBYLAFTWWPIRXNU

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Describing the asymptotic behaviour of multicolour P\'olya urns via smoothing systems analysis

C\'ecile Mailler

arxiv:1407.2879 v2 · 2014-07-10 · math.PR

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\pithnumber{A6U5VU5JSHJKBYLAFTWWPIRXNU}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:27:30.805573Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

07a9dad3a991d2a0e1602ced67a2376d1437272e54bddfdb7da00571509cfc1d

Aliases

arxiv: 1407.2879 · arxiv_version: 1407.2879v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1407.2879 · pith_short_12: A6U5VU5JSHJK · pith_short_16: A6U5VU5JSHJKBYLA · pith_short_8: A6U5VU5J

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/A6U5VU5JSHJKBYLAFTWWPIRXNU \
  | 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: 07a9dad3a991d2a0e1602ced67a2376d1437272e54bddfdb7da00571509cfc1d

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d63c0d58c3bbae8901821c12fc11764d68f4fae7de65132b151c6b93aa0a90e3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2014-07-10T17:52:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8b2fa06c8bd2654f1ccc8998134bd205e0074268c9d98037aa1ca81a449a4ba0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1407.2879",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}