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pith:AQQMRMGA

pith:2006:AQQMRMGARRBHDV33DKP2M7YJHI
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Prophet inequalities for i.i.d. random variables with random arrival times

Pieter C. Allaart

arxiv:math/0611664 v1 · 2006-11-21 · math.PR

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\pithnumber{AQQMRMGARRBHDV33DKP2M7YJHI}

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First computed 2026-05-18T04:41:15.537672Z
Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature Pith Ed25519 (pith-v1-2026-05) · public key
Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0420c8b0c08c4271d77b1a9fa67f093a0806b89a444fef736b7aab7be031013d

Aliases

arxiv: math/0611664 · arxiv_version: math/0611664v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.math/0611664 · pith_short_12: AQQMRMGARRBH · pith_short_16: AQQMRMGARRBHDV33 · pith_short_8: AQQMRMGA
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/AQQMRMGARRBHDV33DKP2M7YJHI \
  | 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: 0420c8b0c08c4271d77b1a9fa67f093a0806b89a444fef736b7aab7be031013d
Canonical record JSON
{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3ff1f0ff8bb7597cc8ac51e7354befe176df484b412747bdbd9af588561b1262",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2006-11-21T22:59:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f9ee47624e5647b9f68a06b3822591af02a45464d48fabf47e55a13019dee4c4"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
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