Pith Number

pith:JLQ2GLBZ

pith:2010:JLQ2GLBZTXFW5KIZRY6Y57OWDA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Hedged maximum likelihood estimation

Robin Blume-Kohout

arxiv:1001.2029 v1 · 2010-01-12 · quant-ph

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JLQ2GLBZTXFW5KIZRY6Y57OWDA}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T04:36:33.920835Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4ae1a32c399dcb6ea9198e3d8efdd618331bb3a9f27fc69cc8c056f798a67cca

Aliases

arxiv: 1001.2029 · arxiv_version: 1001.2029v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1001.2029 · pith_short_12: JLQ2GLBZTXFW · pith_short_16: JLQ2GLBZTXFW5KIZ · pith_short_8: JLQ2GLBZ

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/JLQ2GLBZTXFW5KIZRY6Y57OWDA \
  | 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: 4ae1a32c399dcb6ea9198e3d8efdd618331bb3a9f27fc69cc8c056f798a67cca

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0a18d587861be78d7cab4c8198120755948f9a8747698b5eaae58f24fcdd5746",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-01-12T21:41:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "79b4b53d54c43da9dc8e23426f373aae37e902d2ddab87ef21fec59a23cee913"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1001.2029",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}