Pith Number

pith:IHK6Y3UZ

pith:2016:IHK6Y3UZOO2VOUS4VZP2BTI6ID

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On the central role of the scale invariant Poisson processes on (0,infty)

Richard Arratia

arxiv:1611.05572 v1 · 2016-11-17 · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IHK6Y3UZOO2VOUS4VZP2BTI6ID}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:58:03.227903Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

41d5ec6e9973b557525cae5fa0cd1e40ccc81eb1841f7efc1c326b1bee03f54f

Aliases

arxiv: 1611.05572 · arxiv_version: 1611.05572v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1611.05572 · pith_short_12: IHK6Y3UZOO2V · pith_short_16: IHK6Y3UZOO2VOUS4 · pith_short_8: IHK6Y3UZ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/IHK6Y3UZOO2VOUS4VZP2BTI6ID \
  | 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: 41d5ec6e9973b557525cae5fa0cd1e40ccc81eb1841f7efc1c326b1bee03f54f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "def25825e277520b0796ecf1a501dd0092b9ba88574d78c78df50920818d2231",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2016-11-17T05:39:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ea4624c8c2df33beaacf9d65b9ced8ca73b934231ae0a101b311d6abbb08feb1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1611.05572",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}