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pith:U5PG7M7X

pith:2023:U5PG7M7XZWT53VKTR7CU3VIAX3

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On Deterministically Approximating Total Variation Distance

Liqiang Liu, Tianren Liu, Weiming Feng

arxiv:2309.14696 v1 · 2023-09-26 · cs.DS · math.PR

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First computed	2026-07-05T06:54:28.725035Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

a75e6fb3f7cda7ddd5538fc54dd500beeabe9b8faae9f335ec6d9f85aea13e64

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arxiv: 2309.14696 · arxiv_version: 2309.14696v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2309.14696 · pith_short_12: U5PG7M7XZWT5 · pith_short_16: U5PG7M7XZWT53VKT · pith_short_8: U5PG7M7X

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/U5PG7M7XZWT53VKTR7CU3VIAX3 \
  | 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: a75e6fb3f7cda7ddd5538fc54dd500beeabe9b8faae9f335ec6d9f85aea13e64

Canonical record JSON

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    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2023-09-26T06:17:53Z",
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