Pith Number

pith:5JOPZCPX

pith:2018:5JOPZCPXZBTBJCQSA5P434RH5Q

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Exchangeable, Markov multi-state survival process

Walter Dempsey

arxiv:1810.10598 v1 · 2018-10-24 · stat.ME

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5JOPZCPXZBTBJCQSA5P434RH5Q}

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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	2026-05-18T00:02:20.078476Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ea5cfc89f7c866148a12075fcdf227ec1240e25edb9f7f5f21cbe62dd975fd12

Aliases

arxiv: 1810.10598 · arxiv_version: 1810.10598v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1810.10598 · pith_short_12: 5JOPZCPXZBTB · pith_short_16: 5JOPZCPXZBTBJCQS · pith_short_8: 5JOPZCPX

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/5JOPZCPXZBTBJCQSA5P434RH5Q \
  | 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: ea5cfc89f7c866148a12075fcdf227ec1240e25edb9f7f5f21cbe62dd975fd12

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4a802591ba578d3eb1d8304c558c3d3c95a9dd55b72f775846799bff193cc0f6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2018-10-24T20:07:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "455f4e87accf063a6d8cd170338a7662ccc4b93c6a7d8f0cd9e4ebd544d63631"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1810.10598",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}