Pith Number

pith:PDVQHC6A

pith:2014:PDVQHC6A7L7HC5FKNNQBGCUMBR

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Finding Adam in random growing trees

G\'abor Lugosi, Luc Devroye, S\'ebastien Bubeck

arxiv:1411.3317 v2 · 2014-11-12 · math.PR · cs.DM · cs.SI · math.ST · stat.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PDVQHC6A7L7HC5FKNNQBGCUMBR}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:25:39.645589Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

78eb038bc0fafe7174aa6b60130a8c0c671b31d8fd5ec4abc37b7df07ff1bc64

Aliases

arxiv: 1411.3317 · arxiv_version: 1411.3317v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1411.3317 · pith_short_12: PDVQHC6A7L7H · pith_short_16: PDVQHC6A7L7HC5FK · pith_short_8: PDVQHC6A

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/PDVQHC6A7L7HC5FKNNQBGCUMBR \
  | 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: 78eb038bc0fafe7174aa6b60130a8c0c671b31d8fd5ec4abc37b7df07ff1bc64

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "53843977548cde437fde70a0a573e2195f927e2344ad6eef8c38ce89529a1e42",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DM",
      "cs.SI",
      "math.ST",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2014-11-12T20:50:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a3c3a4bad3392c1273669b227bd1ae29d78effa96997fc812875ec09cca04cde"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1411.3317",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}