Pith Number

pith:X55Y25K6

pith:2017:X55Y25K6SPREXWJVTUYXIOCRVN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Non-normal limiting distribution for optimal alignment scores of strings in binary alphabets

Heinrich Matzinger, Ionel Popescu, Jun Tao Duan

arxiv:1703.05788 v1 · 2017-03-16 · math.PR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{X55Y25K6SPREXWJVTUYXIOCRVN}

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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	2026-05-18T00:38:56.637075Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bf7b8d755e93e24bd9359d31743851ab5979727cdbad627c2f46a67efa767309

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.05788 · arxiv_version: 1703.05788v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.05788 · pith_short_12: X55Y25K6SPRE · pith_short_16: X55Y25K6SPREXWJV · pith_short_8: X55Y25K6

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/X55Y25K6SPREXWJVTUYXIOCRVN \
  | 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: bf7b8d755e93e24bd9359d31743851ab5979727cdbad627c2f46a67efa767309

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d5be7518bc8fda9e93e460d1ad61e49f79306c13ee2a9901e58cd1007295e7b3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-16T18:36:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e36118876924eaf58333325d5f9875b99d7a7bb64811556e711690d9b0b7ba64"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.05788",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}