Pith Number

pith:J3VAYTR2

pith:2025:J3VAYTR2SDG7MSSFYGLDCUQJPR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Wild posteriors in the wild

Tamara Broderick, Yunyi Shen

arxiv:2503.00239 v1 · 2025-02-28 · stat.CO · stat.ME

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{J3VAYTR2SDG7MSSFYGLDCUQJPR}

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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	2026-07-05T10:22:19.401228Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4eea0c4e3a90cdf64a45c1963152097c7ce9c380e5b767092923e9f8116be770

Aliases

arxiv: 2503.00239 · arxiv_version: 2503.00239v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2503.00239 · pith_short_12: J3VAYTR2SDG7 · pith_short_16: J3VAYTR2SDG7MSSF · pith_short_8: J3VAYTR2

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/J3VAYTR2SDG7MSSFYGLDCUQJPR \
  | 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: 4eea0c4e3a90cdf64a45c1963152097c7ce9c380e5b767092923e9f8116be770

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "af8c27d5234e5c3070eb29b58ed95e63c2793c0747ebd1277e28f60ea00148a1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ME"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2025-02-28T22:58:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "450ea38a3bb4ac1f8de1956a6b19cc36919a081e9d2d169d8086a06c5cb3a8a2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2503.00239",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}