Pith Number

pith:V2ZQN7DE

pith:2010:V2ZQN7DE66PL6I3BTJINN7IHLK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Combining individually valid and conditionally i.i.d. P-variables

Lutz Mattner

arxiv:1008.5143 v2 · 2010-08-30 · stat.ME

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{V2ZQN7DE66PL6I3BTJINN7IHLK}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T04:15:06.658871Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aeb306fc64f79ebf23619a50d6fd075ab561cbaa6a8cba2ed44af337681d8a14

Aliases

arxiv: 1008.5143 · arxiv_version: 1008.5143v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1008.5143 · pith_short_12: V2ZQN7DE66PL · pith_short_16: V2ZQN7DE66PL6I3B · pith_short_8: V2ZQN7DE

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/V2ZQN7DE66PL6I3BTJINN7IHLK \
  | 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: aeb306fc64f79ebf23619a50d6fd075ab561cbaa6a8cba2ed44af337681d8a14

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e168e2d2d506ad2515a60aa9e3cecfa267726cf3f41a3043b15eed469475207e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2010-08-30T19:22:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "42ff3d50b329c2aa8d5f2335ec903eafc186de662049fad80b8cfdef91f60449"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1008.5143",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}