Pith Number

pith:2RBBPWSH

pith:2012:2RBBPWSH7AEAYWL3TQN76336N5

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Reunion probability of N vicious walkers: typical and large fluctuations for large N

Alain Comtet, Gregory Schehr, Peter J. Forrester, Satya N. Majumdar

arxiv:1210.4438 v1 · 2012-10-16 · cond-mat.stat-mech · math-ph · math.MP · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2RBBPWSH7AEAYWL3TQN76336N5}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:53:54.300691Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d44217da47f8080c597b9c1bff6f7e6f4c54775e493f7b473ce9d6ab71a86777

Aliases

arxiv: 1210.4438 · arxiv_version: 1210.4438v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1210.4438 · pith_short_12: 2RBBPWSH7AEA · pith_short_16: 2RBBPWSH7AEAYWL3 · pith_short_8: 2RBBPWSH

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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/2RBBPWSH7AEAYWL3TQN76336N5 \
  | 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: d44217da47f8080c597b9c1bff6f7e6f4c54775e493f7b473ce9d6ab71a86777

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "af22399ed0b0fdd89cc86dc1edeb8d6e4ecaf8b74241aad42e2c0f1b9a6724d0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math-ph",
      "math.MP",
      "math.PR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "submitted_at": "2012-10-16T14:45:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8c4e55fd718c149c998f3d87d57674c85406a2af9db46cb238cbea02a48eeff0"
  },
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  "source": {
    "id": "1210.4438",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}