Pith Number

pith:HSRFNIXX

pith:2017:HSRFNIXX4HRY23PSNQT52MW6TA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Expansion of the Kullback-Leibler Divergence, and a new class of information metrics

David J. Galas, James Kunert-Graf, Nikita A. Sakhanenko, T. Gregory Dewey

arxiv:1702.00033 v2 · 2017-01-31 · cs.IT · math.IT · q-bio.QM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HSRFNIXX4HRY23PSNQT52MW6TA}

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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	2026-05-18T00:47:42.116504Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3ca256a2f7e1e38d6df26c27dd32de982b5e3e15d6578bfba7a2afcc04216fb7

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.00033 · arxiv_version: 1702.00033v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.00033 · pith_short_12: HSRFNIXX4HRY · pith_short_16: HSRFNIXX4HRY23PS · pith_short_8: HSRFNIXX

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/HSRFNIXX4HRY23PSNQT52MW6TA \
  | 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: 3ca256a2f7e1e38d6df26c27dd32de982b5e3e15d6578bfba7a2afcc04216fb7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b6be0e730fd508a25ce9e9b151290a8cef392e6ce1b2bb65a3ab375758301c91",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT",
      "q-bio.QM"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-01-31T19:40:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0027c4027a34e964f4c2603c813d96d163f75429b64feb05f3c4da32452210c8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.00033",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}