Pith Number

pith:N55H6ZZM

pith:2017:N55H6ZZMIXYFP5GBITSOMNMMEG

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Fundamental Properties of Process Distances

Alois Pichler, Julio Backhoff Veraguas, Manu Eder, Mathias Beiglb\"ock

arxiv:1701.03955 v3 · 2017-01-14 · math.OC · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{N55H6ZZMIXYFP5GBITSOMNMMEG}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:24:31.567514Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6f7a7f672c45f057f4c144e4e6358c21bed9baf3f91edeedffaa12460a1692a5

Aliases

arxiv: 1701.03955 · arxiv_version: 1701.03955v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1701.03955 · pith_short_12: N55H6ZZMIXYF · pith_short_16: N55H6ZZMIXYFP5GB · pith_short_8: N55H6ZZM

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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/N55H6ZZMIXYFP5GBITSOMNMMEG \
  | 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: 6f7a7f672c45f057f4c144e4e6358c21bed9baf3f91edeedffaa12460a1692a5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8c1ba5616f6cd967b1c7f086e8ba83fb3562d5adbb0c1ca2ab9c1581bd733125",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.PR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-01-14T19:03:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9c1af88c77b1e6c56a7f7280465f6e760bd7fe9dc56961eadf2c4c916909119b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1701.03955",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}