Pith Number

pith:M4Y3FUXO

pith:2017:M4Y3FUXOS6ZY5XM2ITLSWDNFTQ

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The duration of load effect in lumber as stochastic degradation

James V. Zidek, Samuel W.K. Wong

arxiv:1708.07213 v1 · 2017-08-23 · stat.AP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{M4Y3FUXOS6ZY5XM2ITLSWDNFTQ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:36:46.916819Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6731b2d2ee97b38edd9a44d72b0da59c116cbb6ba622434a8df5a1df6fa70beb

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.07213 · arxiv_version: 1708.07213v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.07213 · pith_short_12: M4Y3FUXOS6ZY · pith_short_16: M4Y3FUXOS6ZY5XM2 · pith_short_8: M4Y3FUXO

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/M4Y3FUXOS6ZY5XM2ITLSWDNFTQ \
  | 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: 6731b2d2ee97b38edd9a44d72b0da59c116cbb6ba622434a8df5a1df6fa70beb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e45d82cebc81596f90009fed60933032f9dcea76580dd1c1aeba8ee3e3db7ed6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.AP",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-23T23:24:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c37f52144ab7fc279121e4e9971d867cbf7fd97173bb3e238fb3dd09fae55a86"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.07213",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}