Pith Number

pith:WSARZNVJ

pith:2014:WSARZNVJIBI3GQ36PMVI3BA7ZD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Minimax Estimation of Functionals of Discrete Distributions

Jiantao Jiao, Kartik Venkat, Tsachy Weissman, Yanjun Han

arxiv:1406.6956 v5 · 2014-06-26 · cs.IT · math.IT · math.ST · stat.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WSARZNVJIBI3GQ36PMVI3BA7ZD}

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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	2026-05-18T02:25:18.883654Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b4811cb6a94051b3437e7b2a8d841fc8d935b9860aeb6d6abf84da0de0f28415

Aliases

arxiv: 1406.6956 · arxiv_version: 1406.6956v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1406.6956 · pith_short_12: WSARZNVJIBI3 · pith_short_16: WSARZNVJIBI3GQ36 · pith_short_8: WSARZNVJ

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/WSARZNVJIBI3GQ36PMVI3BA7ZD \
  | 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: b4811cb6a94051b3437e7b2a8d841fc8d935b9860aeb6d6abf84da0de0f28415

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4d2417b547da0833398317f85e0a4a97430edf1ae40ca339218d70ad58fd622e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT",
      "math.ST",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2014-06-26T17:50:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "04e12d2d2a0baf1ffa9f2bdb392c0f950c860761530054df9ac7e89d77e58724"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1406.6956",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}