Pith Number

pith:RJK7QEAN

pith:2017:RJK7QEANUWU3JOZKWRVMXUSZLQ

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Random cover times using the Poisson cylinder process

Erik I. Broman, Filipe Mussini

arxiv:1709.04378 v2 · 2017-09-13 · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RJK7QEANUWU3JOZKWRVMXUSZLQ}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T00:03:19.483907Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8a55f8100da5a9b4bb2ab46acbd2595c21747203ffe7172419e4fe13678dccb2

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.04378 · arxiv_version: 1709.04378v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.04378 · pith_short_12: RJK7QEANUWU3 · pith_short_16: RJK7QEANUWU3JOZK · pith_short_8: RJK7QEAN

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/RJK7QEANUWU3JOZKWRVMXUSZLQ \
  | 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: 8a55f8100da5a9b4bb2ab46acbd2595c21747203ffe7172419e4fe13678dccb2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a0e5678e267308f0205c18ad2678cc35c445d1b78dd50e569c1bb99db9e1fa54",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-13T15:25:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f11934e91ed9fc67fca9fedc415e7566e1c393c7abca5d7c399f2de6e3465180"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.04378",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}