Pith Number

pith:UI4QXE2S

pith:2017:UI4QXE2S4LPNZEVYGUXYAZXQNL

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Estimating the index of increase via balancing deterministic and random data

Lingzhi Chen, Nadezhda Gribkova, Ri\v{c}ardas Zitikis, Youri Davydov

arxiv:1712.09661 v2 · 2017-12-27 · math.ST · stat.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UI4QXE2S4LPNZEVYGUXYAZXQNL}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:24:14.542393Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a2390b9352e2dedc92b8352f8066f06adf2836dc30c28000f972bbf360441694

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.09661 · arxiv_version: 1712.09661v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.09661 · pith_short_12: UI4QXE2S4LPN · pith_short_16: UI4QXE2S4LPNZEVY · pith_short_8: UI4QXE2S

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/UI4QXE2S4LPNZEVYGUXYAZXQNL \
  | 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: a2390b9352e2dedc92b8352f8066f06adf2836dc30c28000f972bbf360441694

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9c3e988a151c1f8b47a386b43f22556bd2ab0c9924d921358c8362da1199d08e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-27T19:47:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d3624360c4f247a90983ddc9391c0c497976de2be2ee0130c017b92a3b15a99c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.09661",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}