Pith Number

pith:QRV7TVRO

pith:2011:QRV7TVROBGSL7DCWVTFGCVIIBA

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On principles of inductive inference

Ryszard Pawe{\l} Kostecki

arxiv:1109.3142 v4 · 2011-09-14 · math.ST · stat.ME · stat.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QRV7TVROBGSL7DCWVTFGCVIIBA}

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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	2026-05-18T04:03:32.154028Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

846bf9d62e09a4bf8c56acca615508081953f6fb75199b3e5b920b4eb96aaa73

Aliases

arxiv: 1109.3142 · arxiv_version: 1109.3142v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1109.3142 · pith_short_12: QRV7TVROBGSL · pith_short_16: QRV7TVROBGSL7DCW · pith_short_8: QRV7TVRO

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/QRV7TVROBGSL7DCWVTFGCVIIBA \
  | 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: 846bf9d62e09a4bf8c56acca615508081953f6fb75199b3e5b920b4eb96aaa73

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "47446968ebbcb1dd83ebfb55bd46f03909787d81fee9915bc1f11af74628b294",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ME",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2011-09-14T17:27:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "acb8bf135557946129f3a3c51a11245bdc75306a0306ecbc554575ee2814f497"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1109.3142",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}