Pith Number

pith:KVWMFLXR

pith:2014:KVWMFLXR6OP3W23SS6HP4TYQEM

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Chernoff's Inequality - A very elementary proof

Nathan Linial, Zur Luria

arxiv:1403.7739 v1 · 2014-03-30 · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KVWMFLXR6OP3W23SS6HP4TYQEM}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T02:55:12.504434Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

556cc2aef1f39fbb6b72978efe4f10233931b8196cf90010679f7cb88bef8d17

Aliases

arxiv: 1403.7739 · arxiv_version: 1403.7739v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1403.7739 · pith_short_12: KVWMFLXR6OP3 · pith_short_16: KVWMFLXR6OP3W23S · pith_short_8: KVWMFLXR

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/KVWMFLXR6OP3W23SS6HP4TYQEM \
  | 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: 556cc2aef1f39fbb6b72978efe4f10233931b8196cf90010679f7cb88bef8d17

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "66dd797dd9636d7061d034af1afc9a81b44e2cfc78a1fa19e994618abb65de44",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2014-03-30T11:43:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7f95df914222c6a3850cb38e7f7e78feb540bb711782661249784f98b23ce5bb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1403.7739",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}