Pith Number

pith:5VKGB4K2

pith:2017:5VKGB4K2LBNXWLIDUEN5FTTZKS

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Characterization of distributions whose forward differences are exponential polynomials

J. M. Almira

arxiv:1702.01543 v1 · 2017-02-06 · math.CA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5VKGB4K2LBNXWLIDUEN5FTTZKS}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:51:23.054950Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ed5460f15a585b7b2d03a11bd2ce7954bc3cf4d721fdf183396dff1df4f92149

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.01543 · arxiv_version: 1702.01543v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.01543 · pith_short_12: 5VKGB4K2LBNX · pith_short_16: 5VKGB4K2LBNXWLID · pith_short_8: 5VKGB4K2

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/5VKGB4K2LBNXWLIDUEN5FTTZKS \
  | 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: ed5460f15a585b7b2d03a11bd2ce7954bc3cf4d721fdf183396dff1df4f92149

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6f810c2a5a0a859275b0d1a359f6586f8d5b637f2193e508ffb44c2721373da6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.CA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-06T09:48:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a49f43c84d5a2f1adf7318167977caa65dc2fa296e3fef5895381337ee3a3332"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.01543",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}