Pith Number

pith:POUPTVVN

pith:2016:POUPTVVNFEJIQNX5Y5RRSGVRC7

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On maximal tail probability of sums of nonnegative, independent and identically distributed random variables

Katarzyna Mieczkowska, Matas \v{S}ileikis, Tomasz {\L}uczak

arxiv:1602.03547 v1 · 2016-02-10 · math.PR · math.CO

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\pithnumber{POUPTVVNFEJIQNX5Y5RRSGVRC7}

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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	2026-05-18T01:20:58.519040Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7ba8f9d6ad29128836fdc763191ab117e1a2301ec9e9e6551a626dcfd4a69c64

Aliases

arxiv: 1602.03547 · arxiv_version: 1602.03547v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1602.03547 · pith_short_12: POUPTVVNFEJI · pith_short_16: POUPTVVNFEJIQNX5 · pith_short_8: POUPTVVN

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/POUPTVVNFEJIQNX5Y5RRSGVRC7 \
  | 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: 7ba8f9d6ad29128836fdc763191ab117e1a2301ec9e9e6551a626dcfd4a69c64

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b71e087af85f7dc8d552c92500ded64966f17152c6a0bfa0c7625fd8088e00b4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2016-02-10T21:53:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0a2608032599b451877faacc6bda64004af61a9eae05ed3ab0f68916af57dc88"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1602.03547",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}