Pith Number

pith:MMS4P7GV

pith:2012:MMS4P7GV4A5MIYQVPTY7RSM5EM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

In praise of the referee

Andrew Gelman (Columbia University), Christian P. Robert (Universite Paris-Dauphine, CREST), IUF, Kerrie L. Mengersen (Queensland University of Technology), Nicolas Chopin (ENSAE

arxiv:1205.4304 v1 · 2012-05-19 · stat.OT · cs.DL · physics.soc-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MMS4P7GV4A5MIYQVPTY7RSM5EM}

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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	2026-05-18T03:55:13.464627Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6325c7fcd5e03ac462157cf1f8c99d231cd0d18034c46e144e1e5cf599b5b21d

Aliases

arxiv: 1205.4304 · arxiv_version: 1205.4304v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1205.4304 · pith_short_12: MMS4P7GV4A5M · pith_short_16: MMS4P7GV4A5MIYQV · pith_short_8: MMS4P7GV

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/MMS4P7GV4A5MIYQVPTY7RSM5EM \
  | 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: 6325c7fcd5e03ac462157cf1f8c99d231cd0d18034c46e144e1e5cf599b5b21d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "de9911a9dfcd190e9e2cb9029f5967a7002498f834a48f1dcb9518c73f274a2d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DL",
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.OT",
    "submitted_at": "2012-05-19T08:33:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5b95af9ce2b5d5ca51b63e8db94cd10f94edd07bf908f18311e6fb1b0eb66460"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1205.4304",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}