Pith Number

pith:XU23MHD4

pith:2026:XU23MHD4MCFI3G5OZY7SDOUOLV

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Linear time approximation of the TV distance between product distributions

Alistair Benford, Heng Guo, Konrad Anand

arxiv:2607.27088 v1 · 2026-07-29 · cs.DS · stat.ME

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XU23MHD4MCFI3G5OZY7SDOUOLV}

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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	2026-07-30T01:23:32.713252Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	unsigned_v0
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bd35b61c7c608a8d9baece3f21ba8e5d44774b77c394d9e8dbd37bb819c08aea

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.27088 · arxiv_version: 2607.27088v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.27088 · pith_short_12: XU23MHD4MCFI · pith_short_16: XU23MHD4MCFI3G5O · pith_short_8: XU23MHD4

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/XU23MHD4MCFI3G5OZY7SDOUOLV \
  | 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: bd35b61c7c608a8d9baece3f21ba8e5d44774b77c394d9e8dbd37bb819c08aea

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2069b7ab39cf69e37f7e56c1ce7126794da2ee6a58d8c6e705c7a621a5f0b83d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ME"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-29T16:14:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "704e2c04e176e594df0541f1043ad8d92ef2649b73bc3b0179fcdd21e2c7c765"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.27088",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}