Pith Number

pith:MVP4LPBW

pith:2017:MVP4LPBWUUYXCU3NWMQRY6JEHN

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A Variational Characterization of R\'enyi Divergences

Venkat Anantharam

arxiv:1701.07796 v1 · 2017-01-26 · cs.IT · math.IT · math.PR · math.ST · stat.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MVP4LPBWUUYXCU3NWMQRY6JEHN}

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4 Citations open

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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	2026-05-18T00:52:02.555261Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

655fc5bc36a53171536db3211c79243b41cc71e1c00bafd00d7a52811624f274

Aliases

arxiv: 1701.07796 · arxiv_version: 1701.07796v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1701.07796 · pith_short_12: MVP4LPBWUUYX · pith_short_16: MVP4LPBWUUYXCU3N · pith_short_8: MVP4LPBW

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/MVP4LPBWUUYXCU3NWMQRY6JEHN \
  | 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: 655fc5bc36a53171536db3211c79243b41cc71e1c00bafd00d7a52811624f274

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3addff9bc2a768dd9eb14a48779dd3662d6d595c5ef66ac48fe2ba8a6231c108",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT",
      "math.PR",
      "math.ST",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-01-26T18:06:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0a2fc813b7a281c595ed0f9d4b0af7d7093391a8b1216970d630cd79e677403f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1701.07796",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}