Pith Number

pith:RFBGU4OF

pith:2017:RFBGU4OFTHKFXO2TAF7HO4WJWD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A novel approach to the bias-variance problem in bump hunting

Mike Williams

arxiv:1705.03578 v2 · 2017-05-10 · hep-ex · nucl-ex · physics.data-an

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RFBGU4OFTHKFXO2TAF7HO4WJWD}

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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	2026-05-18T00:13:07.669309Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

89426a71c599d45bbb53017e7772c9b0c23b43942d554cde8b0f64457fe0d9c6

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.03578 · arxiv_version: 1705.03578v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.03578 · pith_short_12: RFBGU4OFTHKF · pith_short_16: RFBGU4OFTHKFXO2T · pith_short_8: RFBGU4OF

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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/RFBGU4OFTHKFXO2TAF7HO4WJWD \
  | 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: 89426a71c599d45bbb53017e7772c9b0c23b43942d554cde8b0f64457fe0d9c6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b905d9acaa4be326c5000e82f91ad304b09c3999eac22b6e7dc023ad5d75d43f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "nucl-ex",
      "physics.data-an"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ex",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-10T01:07:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "82f8bd2a928c9c5ddb703e3afebbeae7a9d1550ae875a50803e1e36958d1b8e3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.03578",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}