Pith Number

pith:UMCVJVO7

pith:2011:UMCVJVO77BHO2WHB7Q2HMIXVIH

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Beta processes, stick-breaking, and power laws

Jim Pitman, Michael I. Jordan, Tamara Broderick

arxiv:1106.0539 v2 · 2011-06-03 · stat.ME · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UMCVJVO77BHO2WHB7Q2HMIXVIH}

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5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T04:13:05.380869Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a30554d5dff84eed58e1fc347622f541ed15dc3c111a0c91bfb61f925cc8f58b

Aliases

arxiv: 1106.0539 · arxiv_version: 1106.0539v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1106.0539 · pith_short_12: UMCVJVO77BHO · pith_short_16: UMCVJVO77BHO2WHB · pith_short_8: UMCVJVO7

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/UMCVJVO77BHO2WHB7Q2HMIXVIH \
  | 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: a30554d5dff84eed58e1fc347622f541ed15dc3c111a0c91bfb61f925cc8f58b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "736e0be5b26178feb62f1abe6f7da7e24798b03e8c9114d20fcf63af3ccfd98e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2011-06-03T00:08:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "97dc20e5550f557d9d52da05acda8b06997aa47cb525f4f136cd210049b2751a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1106.0539",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}