Pith Number

pith:DF3F4GHU

pith:2017:DF3F4GHUGKWLKEWTGXUPDHZYUS

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Minimax Linear Estimation at a Boundary Point

Wayne Yuan Gao

arxiv:1710.06809 v1 · 2017-10-18 · econ.EM · math.ST · stat.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DF3F4GHUGKWLKEWTGXUPDHZYUS}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:32:32.052831Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

19765e18f432acb512d335e8f19f38a4ae8f7b0aeb5a45f93f893eea1f2c4d70

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.06809 · arxiv_version: 1710.06809v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.06809 · pith_short_12: DF3F4GHUGKWL · pith_short_16: DF3F4GHUGKWLKEWT · pith_short_8: DF3F4GHU

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/DF3F4GHUGKWLKEWTGXUPDHZYUS \
  | 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: 19765e18f432acb512d335e8f19f38a4ae8f7b0aeb5a45f93f893eea1f2c4d70

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cbf88e9c572ad9e6de059ef1b469193422c018a1470d1ffc61c9adc8573d6ec1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.ST",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "econ.EM",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-18T16:11:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f3707196c70c49a8434d5784a8faf26ca2d5957dbc86d92b6b160ad479d1b52e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.06809",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}