Pith Number

pith:VVVQHQ3H

pith:2026:VVVQHQ3HUDNBQC4XMXZMCKBF7L

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Modeling Falling Backgrounds with Exponential Mixtures

Austin Townsend, Marc Osherson, Mike Hildreth, Stefano Castruccio

arxiv:2607.00884 v1 · 2026-07-01 · hep-ex · physics.data-an

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VVVQHQ3HUDNBQC4XMXZMCKBF7L}

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4 Citations open

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	2026-07-02T01:18:22.188159Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ad6b03c367a0da180b9765f2c12825faf5e736051e0c1d173abc58694e21c148

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.00884 · arxiv_version: 2607.00884v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.00884 · pith_short_12: VVVQHQ3HUDNB · pith_short_16: VVVQHQ3HUDNBQC4X · pith_short_8: VVVQHQ3H

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/VVVQHQ3HUDNBQC4XMXZMCKBF7L \
  | 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: ad6b03c367a0da180b9765f2c12825faf5e736051e0c1d173abc58694e21c148

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "42fc3e42e7fb72bbc17bb9810b3a2a97bb2503adf0a48831c7c2501a4dfaf82f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.data-an"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ex",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-01T12:51:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cf288bb7138a0d3b24c1480beadd5045c8bfbd40baa768fdf8dd1897090285e2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.00884",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}