Pith Number

pith:JQ4O2XL7

pith:2014:JQ4O2XL7SGTLEGLJ7BF3M7EWR3

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Universal sketches for the frequency negative moments and other decreasing streaming sums

Stephen R. Chestnut, Vladimir Braverman

arxiv:1408.5096 v2 · 2014-08-21 · cs.DS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JQ4O2XL7SGTLEGLJ7BF3M7EWR3}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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	2026-05-18T02:27:05.298063Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4c38ed5d7f91a6b21969f84bb67c968efc4736339a6126174ab46272ce33eb23

Aliases

arxiv: 1408.5096 · arxiv_version: 1408.5096v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1408.5096 · pith_short_12: JQ4O2XL7SGTL · pith_short_16: JQ4O2XL7SGTLEGLJ · pith_short_8: JQ4O2XL7

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/JQ4O2XL7SGTLEGLJ7BF3M7EWR3 \
  | 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: 4c38ed5d7f91a6b21969f84bb67c968efc4736339a6126174ab46272ce33eb23

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ca557471753fd1615f51479d6ba1554f4723d22b52aa27a6cc48a2f7311ea113",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2014-08-21T18:24:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c86c4bbd5dc0f23e860dec0a533789bc1848065e95b9b1cd8892146e2a28a970"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1408.5096",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}