Pith Number

pith:BY7F7J64

pith:2018:BY7F7J642UXSXD6LLUMA4KI2G5

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Simulation of Random Variables under R\'enyi Divergence Measures of All Orders

Lei Yu, Vincent Y. F. Tan

arxiv:1805.12451 v4 · 2018-05-31 · cs.IT · cs.CR · math.IT · math.PR

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\pithnumber{BY7F7J642UXSXD6LLUMA4KI2G5}

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:57:46.828030Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0e3e5fa7dcd52f2b8fcb5d180e291a37793369345aba4d52e531e87736c90506

Aliases

arxiv: 1805.12451 · arxiv_version: 1805.12451v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.12451 · pith_short_12: BY7F7J642UXS · pith_short_16: BY7F7J642UXSXD6L · pith_short_8: BY7F7J64

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BY7F7J642UXSXD6LLUMA4KI2G5 \
  | 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: 0e3e5fa7dcd52f2b8fcb5d180e291a37793369345aba4d52e531e87736c90506

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7fac889facf10d032bf69eca6e20b5c1cad1fb18508e366acf9c1975736801aa",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR",
      "math.IT",
      "math.PR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2018-05-31T13:10:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e60e2227adfcd18c5b39c0f8ca028deb727733156037d5d2f5f523c469ad685b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1805.12451",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}