Pith Number

pith:KKZWZ5AN

pith:2011:KKZWZ5AN2IYYIIKETQRQERLWRP

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Optimal Sequential Selection of a Unimodal Subsequence of a Random Sequence

Alessandro Arlotto, J. Michael Steele

arxiv:1108.2633 v2 · 2011-08-12 · math.PR · math.CO · math.OC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KKZWZ5AN2IYYIIKETQRQERLWRP}

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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	2026-05-18T04:10:08.530598Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

52b36cf40dd2318421449c230245768bd912481a822ed17e606aee9d00ce1556

Aliases

arxiv: 1108.2633 · arxiv_version: 1108.2633v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1108.2633 · pith_short_12: KKZWZ5AN2IYY · pith_short_16: KKZWZ5AN2IYYIIKE · pith_short_8: KKZWZ5AN

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/KKZWZ5AN2IYYIIKETQRQERLWRP \
  | 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: 52b36cf40dd2318421449c230245768bd912481a822ed17e606aee9d00ce1556

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bef7583a9452cffbcc73d4efa3e6657a6a54c4b21daa678065e437ee04bc898a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.CO",
      "math.OC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2011-08-12T14:54:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "eb4a3a03d8dcc9b61a1a6ddc4e5aa8693f0168a1e4244637d74637767c5fa817"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1108.2633",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}