Pith Number

pith:BRWN7W5V

pith:2018:BRWN7W5VN3JUA2BKLVFYYOGCAX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Negative Binomial Construction of Random Discrete Distributions on the Infinite Simplex

Ross A. Maller, Yuguang Fan Ipsen

arxiv:1802.02655 v1 · 2018-02-07 · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BRWN7W5VN3JUA2BKLVFYYOGCAX}

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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	2026-05-18T00:24:03.431675Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0c6cdfdbb56ed340682a5d4b8c38c205f07806561ef0851122ea6d1ae4b941cb

Aliases

arxiv: 1802.02655 · arxiv_version: 1802.02655v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1802.02655 · pith_short_12: BRWN7W5VN3JU · pith_short_16: BRWN7W5VN3JUA2BK · pith_short_8: BRWN7W5V

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/BRWN7W5VN3JUA2BKLVFYYOGCAX \
  | 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: 0c6cdfdbb56ed340682a5d4b8c38c205f07806561ef0851122ea6d1ae4b941cb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bdc6bc19d3fdc66a54ace5292d650eaf2febfa902f881cb37d84f2cca88bbfba",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2018-02-07T22:03:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "54ed8e8a2653150c08382689140657a8066210590454e059a7f7c51c33602949"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1802.02655",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}