Pith Number

pith:WBHEZJU5

pith:2026:WBHEZJU57JBU3LPYHUF6N6BV4E

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Extreme Score Distributions in Countable-Outcome Round-Robin Tournaments of Equally Strong Players

Yaakov Malinovsky

arxiv:2601.15950 v3 · 2026-01-22 · math.PR · math.ST · stat.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WBHEZJU57JBU3LPYHUF6N6BV4E}

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First computed	2026-05-21T02:04:57.372741Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b04e4ca69dfa434dadf83d0be6f835e13f6159c9d6b69f6a76015a4401708933

Aliases

arxiv: 2601.15950 · arxiv_version: 2601.15950v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2601.15950 · pith_short_12: WBHEZJU57JBU · pith_short_16: WBHEZJU57JBU3LPY · pith_short_8: WBHEZJU5

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/WBHEZJU57JBU3LPYHUF6N6BV4E \
  | 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: b04e4ca69dfa434dadf83d0be6f835e13f6159c9d6b69f6a76015a4401708933

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "72591dc32a95758ee0a4659e999808482f8127b97657281c6bfa005b08e2c3f2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.ST",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-01-22T13:38:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9c4c285ec3717445b7814859350042ca5c3432e0b889e014e7e445834d8cbd04"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2601.15950",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}