Pith Number

pith:2UEOWTJY

pith:2017:2UEOWTJYBCYCKQHGGZPT7TYCK2

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The flashing Brownian ratchet and Parrondo's paradox

Jiyeon Lee, S. N. Ethier

arxiv:1710.05295 v2 · 2017-10-15 · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2UEOWTJYBCYCKQHGGZPT7TYCK2}

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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	2026-05-18T00:24:42.266144Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d508eb4d3808b02540e6365f3fcf02569bd12be945d3d10c3e7313a3e1bc6392

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.05295 · arxiv_version: 1710.05295v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.05295 · pith_short_12: 2UEOWTJYBCYC · pith_short_16: 2UEOWTJYBCYCKQHG · pith_short_8: 2UEOWTJY

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/2UEOWTJYBCYCKQHGGZPT7TYCK2 \
  | 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: d508eb4d3808b02540e6365f3fcf02569bd12be945d3d10c3e7313a3e1bc6392

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bad678729ec79ee84a0378bef56d0b7570065e41844383c5ff4dcfb8c2b7d945",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-15T07:29:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b3fd8a6f3c30dd2f3fc091c84da0288940f5949eb30bd3d108cddd10c0f5579b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.05295",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}