Pith Number

pith:MZTUZL6A

pith:2017:MZTUZL6ARNWECQFS7T5WJHE4D7

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Generalized Probability Smoothing

Christopher Mattern

arxiv:1712.02151 v2 · 2017-12-06 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MZTUZL6ARNWECQFS7T5WJHE4D7}

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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	2026-05-18T00:26:17.870404Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

66674cafc08b6c4140b2fcfb649c9c1fe198fb4d76fc43bbf267e8c86e8b4799

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.02151 · arxiv_version: 1712.02151v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.02151 · pith_short_12: MZTUZL6ARNWE · pith_short_16: MZTUZL6ARNWECQFS · pith_short_8: MZTUZL6A

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/MZTUZL6ARNWECQFS7T5WJHE4D7 \
  | 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: 66674cafc08b6c4140b2fcfb649c9c1fe198fb4d76fc43bbf267e8c86e8b4799

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "46daabc6e073169768e385cd72de188e06cc454aff9cdfacc015787b5d2cef73",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-06T12:13:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f5926a5d5ceb96167bf98dafcf87a8a92bbc8bef852f566c08eeb3cb9af0a8e4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.02151",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}