Pith Number

pith:KU3MNJB7

pith:2020:KU3MNJB7GPXYB4HK4YP77XNRUZ

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VAR estimators using binary measurements

Colin Cros, Jonathan H. Manton, Pierre-Olivier Amblard

arxiv:2008.09882 v1 · 2020-08-22 · stat.ME · math.OC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KU3MNJB7GPXYB4HK4YP77XNRUZ}

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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	2026-07-05T01:29:18.443284Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5536c6a43f33ef80f0eae61fffddb1a64cae4c416b42c6b70ef95b0bcd190249

Aliases

arxiv: 2008.09882 · arxiv_version: 2008.09882v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2008.09882 · pith_short_12: KU3MNJB7GPXY · pith_short_16: KU3MNJB7GPXYB4HK · pith_short_8: KU3MNJB7

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/KU3MNJB7GPXYB4HK4YP77XNRUZ \
  | 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: 5536c6a43f33ef80f0eae61fffddb1a64cae4c416b42c6b70ef95b0bcd190249

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "277989ccc54731645c074166d84b478865710de523cfd7b8577cbbdf136795d8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.OC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2020-08-22T17:15:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "401e09362e3bdea3b96e6181ccab463ad3ca549900b883feac188daa5919fa86"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2008.09882",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}