Pith Number

pith:L2DOEFBM

pith:2017:L2DOEFBMUE6EFH3OYYXSQ46ROU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Approximating geodesics via random points

Erik Davis, Sunder Sethuraman

arxiv:1711.06952 v1 · 2017-11-19 · math.PR · math.OC · math.ST · stat.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{L2DOEFBMUE6EFH3OYYXSQ46ROU}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:30:15.090807Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5e86e2142ca13c429f6ec62f2873d1750a4cc56d37402e93c4e7288f283e4117

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.06952 · arxiv_version: 1711.06952v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.06952 · pith_short_12: L2DOEFBMUE6E · pith_short_16: L2DOEFBMUE6EFH3O · pith_short_8: L2DOEFBM

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/L2DOEFBMUE6EFH3OYYXSQ46ROU \
  | 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: 5e86e2142ca13c429f6ec62f2873d1750a4cc56d37402e93c4e7288f283e4117

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "78a8781fc3d7013f877bd36647d894040b0f75acd89ddbe21029f46c1ebd229f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.OC",
      "math.ST",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-19T01:54:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b19cff1a68956f3c8cbce9a8300797ba12633d28f8a88c4cab59be922aa98c74"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.06952",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}