Pith Number

pith:GEMM3QVX

pith:2014:GEMM3QVX5H6NOMMN5N4XAPCLX6

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Quickest detection of a hidden target and extremal surfaces

Goran Peskir

arxiv:1409.1745 v1 · 2014-09-05 · math.PR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GEMM3QVX5H6NOMMN5N4XAPCLX6}

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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	2026-05-18T02:43:25.322142Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3118cdc2b7e9fcd7318deb79703c4bbfa7248cff53a185a0f8a4c9dfc4f1e31b

Aliases

arxiv: 1409.1745 · arxiv_version: 1409.1745v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1409.1745 · pith_short_12: GEMM3QVX5H6N · pith_short_16: GEMM3QVX5H6NOMMN · pith_short_8: GEMM3QVX

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/GEMM3QVX5H6NOMMN5N4XAPCLX6 \
  | 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: 3118cdc2b7e9fcd7318deb79703c4bbfa7248cff53a185a0f8a4c9dfc4f1e31b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7c4818574506cbfc45a70485a094c1764ee91ff3f88292d6080d448a4dda2312",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2014-09-05T11:42:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "efb2a3b2e2cfbfdfab6573ebd909e3c7be5e45483f5807e4d154df8d1086cfdf"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1409.1745",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}