Pith Number

pith:XPGR6XJ5

pith:2006:XPGR6XJ55RYWIPOBTDAUFVXI72

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On optimal quantization rules for some problems in sequential decentralized detection

Martin J. Wainwright, Michael I. Jordan, XuanLong Nguyen

arxiv:math/0608556 v2 · 2006-08-22 · math.ST · cs.IT · math.IT · stat.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XPGR6XJ55RYWIPOBTDAUFVXI72}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:58:05.005402Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bbcd1f5d3dec71643dc198c142d6e8fe80ae434e384601cbea35f35f345edef2

Aliases

arxiv: math/0608556 · arxiv_version: math/0608556v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.math/0608556 · pith_short_12: XPGR6XJ55RYW · pith_short_16: XPGR6XJ55RYWIPOB · pith_short_8: XPGR6XJ5

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/XPGR6XJ55RYWIPOBTDAUFVXI72 \
  | 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: bbcd1f5d3dec71643dc198c142d6e8fe80ae434e384601cbea35f35f345edef2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "08e04d3bf2d8d94bad9cad6bddeed24fa7d64a5740c121244901ab6edca0c095",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2006-08-22T19:44:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f7bb51e3f4e487437046b200af7caf05d128f4fb6619a29739b32dee5332ad1b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "math/0608556",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}