Pith Number

pith:RQVG2F4A

pith:2019:RQVG2F4ABK62K72LVLLI3ZIOY6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the power of random information

Aicke Hinrichs, David Krieg, Erich Novak, Joscha Prochno, Mario Ullrich

arxiv:1903.00681 v1 · 2019-03-02 · math.NA · math.PR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RQVG2F4ABK62K72LVLLI3ZIOY6}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-17T23:52:13.690104Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8c2a6d17800abda57f4baad68de50ec7a3a9c2f17392fd26ab8cc6fa8ffa0172

Aliases

arxiv: 1903.00681 · arxiv_version: 1903.00681v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1903.00681 · pith_short_12: RQVG2F4ABK62 · pith_short_16: RQVG2F4ABK62K72L · pith_short_8: RQVG2F4A

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/RQVG2F4ABK62K72LVLLI3ZIOY6 \
  | 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: 8c2a6d17800abda57f4baad68de50ec7a3a9c2f17392fd26ab8cc6fa8ffa0172

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6f2c03a3ed4e8ee0e0cb48c2a392bf9d962598273dafd87b0b23c2e4a570aa14",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.PR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.NA",
    "submitted_at": "2019-03-02T11:06:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "149c6154842ed6b7b9603a878739949d7cae97923e50af97be2ff8a003f43bec"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1903.00681",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}