Pith Number

pith:ASZNSGKW

pith:2012:ASZNSGKWF6LHTU6XBWMGBL4SOA

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Computing system signatures through reliability functions

Jean-Luc Marichal, Pierre Mathonet

arxiv:1209.3163 v1 · 2012-09-14 · math.PR · math.OC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ASZNSGKWF6LHTU6XBWMGBL4SOA}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T03:38:04.812695Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

04b2d919562f9679d3d70d9860af92702bf98aca4e487290c74db1aee67e45b3

Aliases

arxiv: 1209.3163 · arxiv_version: 1209.3163v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1209.3163 · pith_short_12: ASZNSGKWF6LH · pith_short_16: ASZNSGKWF6LHTU6X · pith_short_8: ASZNSGKW

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/ASZNSGKWF6LHTU6XBWMGBL4SOA \
  | 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: 04b2d919562f9679d3d70d9860af92702bf98aca4e487290c74db1aee67e45b3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "71c1392adcd7265270fed1c6c30293ff7a2e9f895789594966c4535c57d51812",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.OC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2012-09-14T12:01:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "00878d2b7571fce2162136327425ce5c9a1a338fc1e52f4ab1c8a65351b5973a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1209.3163",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}