Pith Number

pith:RCGSYV3I

pith:2017:RCGSYV3ISLR6LCIMU5YIACH2NK

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A general method for lower bounds on fluctuations of random variables

Sourav Chatterjee

arxiv:1706.04290 v3 · 2017-06-14 · math.PR · math.CO

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\pithnumber{RCGSYV3ISLR6LCIMU5YIACH2NK}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:09:42.251493Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

888d2c576892e3e5890ca7708008fa6a8b1da28cfa569288449f80777c4d18ba

Aliases

arxiv: 1706.04290 · arxiv_version: 1706.04290v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1706.04290 · pith_short_12: RCGSYV3ISLR6 · pith_short_16: RCGSYV3ISLR6LCIM · pith_short_8: RCGSYV3I

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RCGSYV3ISLR6LCIMU5YIACH2NK \
  | 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: 888d2c576892e3e5890ca7708008fa6a8b1da28cfa569288449f80777c4d18ba

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5e6dbd409b86239c22dd8eb7af49506d346416be0135507c55f5120c0d3c1951",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-06-14T00:54:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bae49b5416a997d1555537c2cd360ee563cb2a89e77c7c8c4c71748060205cdc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1706.04290",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}