Pith Number

pith:KCZLQOU4

pith:2011:KCZLQOU4LVWCE6PVTLSNYJDA3Q

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Fisher Information in Flow Size Distribution

Darryl Veitch, Paul Tune

arxiv:1106.3809 v1 · 2011-06-20 · cs.IT · cs.NI · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KCZLQOU4LVWCE6PVTLSNYJDA3Q}

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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	2026-05-18T04:19:42.092471Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

50b2b83a9c5d6c2279f59ae4dc2460dc0c90310fef77a5dbcc77b3fc4e0d0f9c

Aliases

arxiv: 1106.3809 · arxiv_version: 1106.3809v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1106.3809 · pith_short_12: KCZLQOU4LVWC · pith_short_16: KCZLQOU4LVWCE6PV · pith_short_8: KCZLQOU4

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/KCZLQOU4LVWCE6PVTLSNYJDA3Q \
  | 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: 50b2b83a9c5d6c2279f59ae4dc2460dc0c90310fef77a5dbcc77b3fc4e0d0f9c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "05e1e2452b626aa94a5079eea8255ffa3c346c82ed663c4f04afe774260917d3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.NI",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2011-06-20T05:25:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "68c92428784a1717fed78ed8a77a1cb7002b0819d29d2d11906aeb6fb5f59f0c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1106.3809",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}