Pith Number

pith:RXB5SUZM

pith:2025:RXB5SUZMFBUIC2WYHACNGSLM4B

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Broadly discrete stable distributions

F. William Townes

arxiv:2509.05497 v1 · 2025-09-05 · math.ST · math.PR · stat.TH

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RXB5SUZMFBUIC2WYHACNGSLM4B}

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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	2026-07-05T12:05:48.581575Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8dc3d9532c2868816ad83804d3496ce075b6011e25cf64641f54f0b8a269533d

Aliases

arxiv: 2509.05497 · arxiv_version: 2509.05497v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2509.05497 · pith_short_12: RXB5SUZMFBUI · pith_short_16: RXB5SUZMFBUIC2WY · pith_short_8: RXB5SUZM

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/RXB5SUZMFBUIC2WYHACNGSLM4B \
  | 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: 8dc3d9532c2868816ad83804d3496ce075b6011e25cf64641f54f0b8a269533d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c77e79a1bbc22601ab9c38d6b2251e6f8f882e96201c351afb31ddac1dc247fe",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.PR",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2025-09-05T21:09:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "12f8bf919808dd4b8677ef27dd0090f39761f9a87e1f8f28dc469ac0dd76e571"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2509.05497",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}