Pith Number

pith:QYG4GY2J

pith:2017:QYG4GY2JFNU674HJS4YL4NOISG

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Consistency of Hill Estimators in a Linear Preferential Attachment Model

Sidney Resnick, Tiandong Wang

arxiv:1711.05911 v1 · 2017-11-16 · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QYG4GY2JFNU674HJS4YL4NOISG}

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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	2026-05-18T00:30:23.774764Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

860dc363492b69eff0e99730be35c891a70e129651c13d7a87439a071b10bb6d

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.05911 · arxiv_version: 1711.05911v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.05911 · pith_short_12: QYG4GY2JFNU6 · pith_short_16: QYG4GY2JFNU674HJ · pith_short_8: QYG4GY2J

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QYG4GY2JFNU674HJS4YL4NOISG \
  | 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: 860dc363492b69eff0e99730be35c891a70e129651c13d7a87439a071b10bb6d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d02b2f0fd96880004cbb5ccb4d975270509746c5c456fb06c9d787b3b1cb0d6a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-16T03:53:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "da06327e805f4c3f6e1434c6f278d8122709b8e6df76d780fcbfbeeaf5bf73f7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.05911",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}