Pith Number

pith:XBPVY5VB

pith:2012:XBPVY5VB6QMS723QKGBYH2YNEK

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How many statistics are needed to characterize the univariate extremes

Gane Samb Lo

arxiv:1201.5962 v1 · 2012-01-28 · stat.ME

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XBPVY5VB6QMS723QKGBYH2YNEK}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T04:03:34.166138Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b85f5c76a1f4192feb70518383eb0d22a1d80d617b9aa023e11dba72b3b2d9ce

Aliases

arxiv: 1201.5962 · arxiv_version: 1201.5962v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1201.5962 · pith_short_12: XBPVY5VB6QMS · pith_short_16: XBPVY5VB6QMS723Q · pith_short_8: XBPVY5VB

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/XBPVY5VB6QMS723QKGBYH2YNEK \
  | 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: b85f5c76a1f4192feb70518383eb0d22a1d80d617b9aa023e11dba72b3b2d9ce

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "70643b00de77a9d4fb6b0f2625f14bb293d2fe276a247d4a683692716d56a73e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2012-01-28T13:55:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "21b45de40eaa64341765d8b8310e6cc9d7eb2d0f1594fdbf9bf71793abcd5be9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1201.5962",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}