Pith Number

pith:3T6L5PCM

pith:2014:3T6L5PCMEV5QX3VZBAZNN47XAZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Compulsive Gambler Process

Daniel Lanoue, David Aldous, Justin Salez

arxiv:1406.1214 v1 · 2014-06-04 · math.PR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3T6L5PCMEV5QX3VZBAZNN47XAZ}

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Record completeness

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3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T02:50:23.775002Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dcfcbebc4c257b0beeb90832d6f3f706778fd4fcbc4718a78d5e34ecffd29ef9

Aliases

arxiv: 1406.1214 · arxiv_version: 1406.1214v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1406.1214 · pith_short_12: 3T6L5PCMEV5Q · pith_short_16: 3T6L5PCMEV5QX3VZ · pith_short_8: 3T6L5PCM

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/3T6L5PCMEV5QX3VZBAZNN47XAZ \
  | 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: dcfcbebc4c257b0beeb90832d6f3f706778fd4fcbc4718a78d5e34ecffd29ef9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "69abe23b0bd4190ef8871651234a8800cc68b6fada42a0fbbeee2bf180c5f619",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2014-06-04T21:28:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "88b4a1de2da8c1625406233e53babbff37c044c6b5db85bc94fc1abda10f0862"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1406.1214",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}