Pith Number

pith:XSIQ42CF

pith:2017:XSIQ42CFE7SDJWANCH2YTBO3RB

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Extremes and gaps in sampling from a GEM random discrete distribution

Jim Pitman, Yuri Yakubovich

arxiv:1701.06294 v1 · 2017-01-23 · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XSIQ42CFE7SDJWANCH2YTBO3RB}

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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	2026-05-18T00:52:18.738086Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bc910e684527e434d80d11f58985db885a40097b78aa3b3b071916c176114b8f

Aliases

arxiv: 1701.06294 · arxiv_version: 1701.06294v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1701.06294 · pith_short_12: XSIQ42CFE7SD · pith_short_16: XSIQ42CFE7SDJWAN · pith_short_8: XSIQ42CF

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/XSIQ42CFE7SDJWANCH2YTBO3RB \
  | 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: bc910e684527e434d80d11f58985db885a40097b78aa3b3b071916c176114b8f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d1a7fc4b8be1970cea212931ea0f63d0c6fddac978c7d88726090bd156c223f9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-01-23T08:36:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1432ab08a5a10740de7dc2443f628f16b8c33377607355be87e426c794dd46bc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1701.06294",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}