Pith Number

pith:YAEAB3OT

pith:2017:YAEAB3OTWBCDB2O74ECLR72W22

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Independence by Random Scaling

Lancelot F. James, Peter Orbanz

arxiv:1703.02054 v1 · 2017-03-06 · math.PR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YAEAB3OTWBCDB2O74ECLR72W22}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T00:49:20.783955Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c00800edd3b04430e9dfe104b8ff56d6a2a083c78c675b5f4b449e0985044e5a

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.02054 · arxiv_version: 1703.02054v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.02054 · pith_short_12: YAEAB3OTWBCD · pith_short_16: YAEAB3OTWBCDB2O7 · pith_short_8: YAEAB3OT

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/YAEAB3OTWBCDB2O74ECLR72W22 \
  | 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: c00800edd3b04430e9dfe104b8ff56d6a2a083c78c675b5f4b449e0985044e5a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a3e47fcf237257bca6208a607c44c1dd581accad2f80312b949a81fe40acdb29",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-06T19:00:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ceb760e4e4a78ee74678f9d6fdfea0190840c190e573c9e50c562243fe20a073"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.02054",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}