Pith Number

pith:IR5ZBFZD

pith:2017:IR5ZBFZDQXI372KHXFBYR2MDJJ

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Distribution flows associated with positivity preserving coercive forms

Xian Chen, Xue Peng, Zhi-Ming Ma

arxiv:1708.06271 v1 · 2017-08-21 · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IR5ZBFZDQXI372KHXFBYR2MDJJ}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:37:42.782747Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

447b90972385d1bfe947b94388e9834a785588bb0a131b7bd15384ccdc3c88d9

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.06271 · arxiv_version: 1708.06271v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.06271 · pith_short_12: IR5ZBFZDQXI3 · pith_short_16: IR5ZBFZDQXI372KH · pith_short_8: IR5ZBFZD

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/IR5ZBFZDQXI372KHXFBYR2MDJJ \
  | 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: 447b90972385d1bfe947b94388e9834a785588bb0a131b7bd15384ccdc3c88d9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d08323d2c28332fb4ab1554e9a3eae347812140229daea7f6f513f709b500418",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-21T15:01:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9e050551bc494ee6774c2efe2489929808f30f097e80d5155093ef41538ab732"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.06271",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}