Pith Number

pith:RMI2XMKI

pith:2008:RMI2XMKIWY5LKJQNDVDTE5XRBE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Universal Behavior in Large-scale Aggregation of Independent Noisy Observations

Peter Davis, Tatsuto Murayama

arxiv:0812.2726 v1 · 2008-12-15 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RMI2XMKIWY5LKJQNDVDTE5XRBE}

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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	2026-05-18T02:15:04.827155Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8b11abb148b63ab5260d1d473276f10906fbac1dc0cf92cd7659dc1a242ddf15

Aliases

arxiv: 0812.2726 · arxiv_version: 0812.2726v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0812.2726 · pith_short_12: RMI2XMKIWY5L · pith_short_16: RMI2XMKIWY5LKJQN · pith_short_8: RMI2XMKI

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/RMI2XMKIWY5LKJQNDVDTE5XRBE \
  | 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: 8b11abb148b63ab5260d1d473276f10906fbac1dc0cf92cd7659dc1a242ddf15

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "014f54b167131279ab96a40ae901c4924e54c9a620f9fd674ab2497f2463ec59",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2008-12-15T06:05:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "59f5ac9b795cc7e9c57172afaf18350b7988a6fc5794014e41437e8c60ab928c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0812.2726",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}