Pith Number

pith:CWPPUB5D

pith:2017:CWPPUB5DZPJB6VVZCM5YWX2GYE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Impatient random walk

Janos Englander, Stanislav Volkov

arxiv:1709.05421 v2 · 2017-09-15 · math.PR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CWPPUB5DZPJB6VVZCM5YWX2GYE}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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	2026-05-18T00:28:14.088285Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

159efa07a3cbd21f56b9133b8b5f46c135a94974843459563d2812ba7c63f205

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.05421 · arxiv_version: 1709.05421v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.05421 · pith_short_12: CWPPUB5DZPJB · pith_short_16: CWPPUB5DZPJB6VVZ · pith_short_8: CWPPUB5D

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/CWPPUB5DZPJB6VVZCM5YWX2GYE \
  | 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: 159efa07a3cbd21f56b9133b8b5f46c135a94974843459563d2812ba7c63f205

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6f62b45b9caeca57f95c1d099c35e07dee5bbf6094af80d99a0c65be18ff2953",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-15T21:49:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8659a0158140c17f6dd08e669e81fbcdc9672d78b95f03e70f110867a07ad4f6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.05421",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}