Pith Number

pith:MBO6RYUM

pith:2014:MBO6RYUM7TAR2VG2SWDDDWHBZB

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A factorial moment distance and an application to the matching problem

G. Afendras, N. Papadatos

arxiv:1411.1165 v1 · 2014-11-05 · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MBO6RYUM7TAR2VG2SWDDDWHBZB}

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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	2026-05-18T00:14:01.670370Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

605de8e28cfcc11d54da958631d8e1c85bdc13dbad499ad61302ea8bf6ff116f

Aliases

arxiv: 1411.1165 · arxiv_version: 1411.1165v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1411.1165 · pith_short_12: MBO6RYUM7TAR · pith_short_16: MBO6RYUM7TAR2VG2 · pith_short_8: MBO6RYUM

Agent API

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MBO6RYUM7TAR2VG2SWDDDWHBZB \
  | 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: 605de8e28cfcc11d54da958631d8e1c85bdc13dbad499ad61302ea8bf6ff116f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ec50e9d5b450af3cc47715016d9c26f20332fff063a3610181c6baaaac4aac01",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2014-11-05T06:43:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "08f20472559f93c4daf9279e39d7204a86b7ef7c8b9ecb0f7eab50aae9a658a8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1411.1165",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}