Pith Number

pith:MBNLG6QQ

pith:2026:MBNLG6QQN3PQW332F4JLWXJANQ

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A Design-Based Minimax Theory for Network Experiments

Christopher Harshaw, Fredrik S\"avje, Vardis Kandiros

arxiv:2608.04909 v1 · 2026-08-05 · math.ST · stat.ME · stat.TH

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\pithnumber{MBNLG6QQN3PQW332F4JLWXJANQ}

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First computed	2026-08-06T01:47:40.933302Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

605ab37a106edf0b6f7a2f12bb5d206c27d25339785d13173226ef55fa86a25d

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.04909 · arxiv_version: 2608.04909v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.04909 · pith_short_12: MBNLG6QQN3PQ · pith_short_16: MBNLG6QQN3PQW332 · pith_short_8: MBNLG6QQ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MBNLG6QQN3PQW332F4JLWXJANQ \
  | 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: 605ab37a106edf0b6f7a2f12bb5d206c27d25339785d13173226ef55fa86a25d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "908b00529712fce99e9065fa9afb9acad87beb27fb2a65bb9c66397efc8dee69",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ME",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-05T14:36:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "70b804a0b7b99394c61ea420d4efcfb0b580343e14bcdd2fcc700adb0dba3c60"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.04909",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}