Pith Number

pith:AB44AZ2Z

pith:2018:AB44AZ2Z63ZHMTRSJNUAYFCWVQ

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The Alpha-Beta-Symetric Divergence and their Positive Definite Kernel

Macoumba Ndour, Mactar Ndaw, Papa Ngom

arxiv:1803.00001 v2 · 2018-03-01 · stat.ME · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AB44AZ2Z63ZHMTRSJNUAYFCWVQ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:05:39.333459Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0079c06759f6f2764e324b680c1456ac29c02978f1688f3cf75ccca5d9026a89

Aliases

arxiv: 1803.00001 · arxiv_version: 1803.00001v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1803.00001 · pith_short_12: AB44AZ2Z63ZH · pith_short_16: AB44AZ2Z63ZHMTRS · pith_short_8: AB44AZ2Z

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/AB44AZ2Z63ZHMTRSJNUAYFCWVQ \
  | 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: 0079c06759f6f2764e324b680c1456ac29c02978f1688f3cf75ccca5d9026a89

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d6b9ed1ccb841ecac41dae64b42456622d30f676f2395a64d3817df48e73485d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2018-03-01T18:10:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "59ced377b66e735daf69e41aeee0859b30f6b89bf4ae1ee4715e925eb41290fc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1803.00001",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}