Pith Number

pith:KUVVDHNR

pith:2015:KUVVDHNR5FNEKL5SBOAI2J5BOV

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Speeding up lower bound estimation in powerlaw distributions

Alessandro Bessi

arxiv:1503.05210 v1 · 2015-03-17 · stat.CO · physics.soc-ph · stat.AP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KUVVDHNR5FNEKL5SBOAI2J5BOV}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:21:51.103821Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

552b519db1e95a452fb20b808d27a1754839e07c934a292b5c034b70e73a1fd6

Aliases

arxiv: 1503.05210 · arxiv_version: 1503.05210v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1503.05210 · pith_short_12: KUVVDHNR5FNE · pith_short_16: KUVVDHNR5FNEKL5S · pith_short_8: KUVVDHNR

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/KUVVDHNR5FNEKL5SBOAI2J5BOV \
  | 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: 552b519db1e95a452fb20b808d27a1754839e07c934a292b5c034b70e73a1fd6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7dc9770a417e965bf05e80f81b384bd759cfee2bd75b9a6155deff688e632fc9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph",
      "stat.AP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2015-03-17T20:20:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3ca63fbb1b236d2c1fdb58c63a8f21ecfdcd8c4a60228bd24b541c74d355d086"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1503.05210",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}