Pith Number

pith:I5JCZ5NV

pith:2017:I5JCZ5NVSDSZJVWDTNA335KE6I

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The Bayesian update: variational formulations and gradient flows

Daniel Sanz-Alonso, Nicolas Garcia Trillos

arxiv:1705.07382 v2 · 2017-05-21 · math.ST · math.AP · stat.CO · stat.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{I5JCZ5NVSDSZJVWDTNA335KE6I}

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-18T00:01:43.907546Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

47522cf5b590e594d6c39b41bdf544f221cd1e0e03c539fb908f5939dbb00bb2

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.07382 · arxiv_version: 1705.07382v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.07382 · pith_short_12: I5JCZ5NVSDSZ · pith_short_16: I5JCZ5NVSDSZJVWD · pith_short_8: I5JCZ5NV

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/I5JCZ5NVSDSZJVWDTNA335KE6I \
  | 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: 47522cf5b590e594d6c39b41bdf544f221cd1e0e03c539fb908f5939dbb00bb2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bbcacaf2dcfc903df8022a9259e949caad6520a91fca2aaa9203670178991884",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.AP",
      "stat.CO",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-21T02:44:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "54ec13d871d8c6a89d0afd8439d42a7b426203df9c2b2d680159c12f72e39103"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.07382",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}