Pith Number

pith:HKEB2GKQ

pith:2016:HKEB2GKQQWJJSTXNSDWXT3MSSP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The power of online thinning in reducing discrepancy

Aaditya Ramdas, Ohad N. Feldheim, Ori Gurel-Gurevich, Raaz Dwivedi

arxiv:1608.02895 v4 · 2016-08-09 · math.PR · cs.DS

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HKEB2GKQQWJJSTXNSDWXT3MSSP}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:36:09.653734Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3a881d19508592994eed90ed79ed9293faae23ecdfe5dea08334e650da522f70

Aliases

arxiv: 1608.02895 · arxiv_version: 1608.02895v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1608.02895 · pith_short_12: HKEB2GKQQWJJ · pith_short_16: HKEB2GKQQWJJSTXN · pith_short_8: HKEB2GKQ

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/HKEB2GKQQWJJSTXNSDWXT3MSSP \
  | 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: 3a881d19508592994eed90ed79ed9293faae23ecdfe5dea08334e650da522f70

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f3d93e82a948a8e7958c4c32ad2377b49e4a145ff49494914c8a2f5be93ec7b8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2016-08-09T18:07:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1c274c7d4b06060da05c4390be2b78d635900409bfd92c1d00270078bef6dddf"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1608.02895",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}