Pith Number

pith:L5XSEHQU

pith:2017:L5XSEHQUUZIUD33ZGSLHD6QSRB

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On Optimization over Tail Distributions

Clementine Mottet, Henry Lam

arxiv:1711.00573 v1 · 2017-11-02 · stat.ME

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{L5XSEHQUUZIUD33ZGSLHD6QSRB}

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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	2026-05-18T00:31:30.156150Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5f6f221e14a65141ef79349671fa128852545c4c0b55a273be666e7996c8976b

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.00573 · arxiv_version: 1711.00573v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.00573 · pith_short_12: L5XSEHQUUZIU · pith_short_16: L5XSEHQUUZIUD33Z · pith_short_8: L5XSEHQU

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/L5XSEHQUUZIUD33ZGSLHD6QSRB \
  | 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: 5f6f221e14a65141ef79349671fa128852545c4c0b55a273be666e7996c8976b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b67ac04c8d9044007d2ae4063318d798f0e23d2ee2636a46380a773bb26dc301",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-02T00:21:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "93d48d1341d6378c87d57625fdc414e9f0bef1194af5c141ff1c3f6f56a205b4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.00573",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}