Pith Number

pith:BKO2CCLU

pith:2017:BKO2CCLUYOXCE274CKZRED2VRP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Optimal Identity Testing with High Probability

Eric Price, Ilias Diakonikolas, John Peebles, Themis Gouleakis

arxiv:1708.02728 v2 · 2017-08-09 · cs.DS · cs.IT · cs.LG · math.IT · math.ST · stat.TH

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BKO2CCLUYOXCE274CKZRED2VRP}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-17T23:56:15.482990Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0a9da10974c3ae226bfc12b3120f558be58cdc087846dd86a80dca610b3ab4bb

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.02728 · arxiv_version: 1708.02728v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.02728 · pith_short_12: BKO2CCLUYOXC · pith_short_16: BKO2CCLUYOXCE274 · pith_short_8: BKO2CCLU

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/BKO2CCLUYOXCE274CKZRED2VRP \
  | 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: 0a9da10974c3ae226bfc12b3120f558be58cdc087846dd86a80dca610b3ab4bb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dcf76e07e71da1bf67423cfed60e4e35761fa5766bcee2f2fa06d218da06b832",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "cs.LG",
      "math.IT",
      "math.ST",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-09T06:17:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6b2aa715abf05bdf4e5a42323b50425f8f11a0bd55f24ab1cfbeab2d23024feb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.02728",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}