Pith Number

pith:ZXSSPJ72

pith:2012:ZXSSPJ72GICF3XCINS7FNUPOO5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Gaussian Assumption: the Least Favorable but the Most Useful

Erchin Serpedin, Khalid Qaraqe, Sangwoo Park

arxiv:1211.4852 v1 · 2012-11-20 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZXSSPJ72GICF3XCINS7FNUPOO5}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:53:02.304407Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cde527a7fa32045ddc486cbe56d1ee7758562e339e5c54a9d01222f63de668f7

Aliases

arxiv: 1211.4852 · arxiv_version: 1211.4852v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1211.4852 · pith_short_12: ZXSSPJ72GICF · pith_short_16: ZXSSPJ72GICF3XCI · pith_short_8: ZXSSPJ72

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/ZXSSPJ72GICF3XCINS7FNUPOO5 \
  | 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: cde527a7fa32045ddc486cbe56d1ee7758562e339e5c54a9d01222f63de668f7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4518ea935a7846d97dbabf1f317de0e87bd07f39846f30044303f54296361cd2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2012-11-20T20:23:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7987afc07c20de275eba1c22d7d091039d84f9d37fad38b568debfdc8b58dada"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1211.4852",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}