Pith Number

pith:V7M6YZBY

pith:2010:V7M6YZBYFGZQP5PVYDT552UQVU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On signature-based expressions of system reliability

Jean-Luc Marichal, Pierre Mathonet, Tam\'as Waldhauser

arxiv:1010.0162 v2 · 2010-10-01 · math.PR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{V7M6YZBYFGZQP5PVYDT552UQVU}

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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	2026-05-18T04:18:44.967247Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

afd9ec643829b307f5f5c0e7deea90ad0b8c9c42ad7af19b69e47d5a1de90297

Aliases

arxiv: 1010.0162 · arxiv_version: 1010.0162v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1010.0162 · pith_short_12: V7M6YZBYFGZQ · pith_short_16: V7M6YZBYFGZQP5PV · pith_short_8: V7M6YZBY

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/V7M6YZBYFGZQP5PVYDT552UQVU \
  | 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: afd9ec643829b307f5f5c0e7deea90ad0b8c9c42ad7af19b69e47d5a1de90297

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1ecea478cbc67a1cea3bd7bed045d30a75089f384cb03013cf5d17b8660df41d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2010-10-01T13:42:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9c2f998f724c6a6366e98e70f3537d5e298621568c7b4e8c3e8e6e19c1846433"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1010.0162",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}