Pith Number

pith:FQLGYKVQ

pith:2015:FQLGYKVQAACZQZ6EQ3MEVOASME

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Volatility Harvesting: Extracting Return from Randomness

Jan Hendrik Witte

arxiv:1508.05241 v3 · 2015-08-21 · q-fin.TR · q-fin.PM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FQLGYKVQAACZQZ6EQ3MEVOASME}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T01:27:31.293876Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2c166c2ab000059867c486d84ab81261145f976af7a3f5b3b5e3dd4fa9081b87

Aliases

arxiv: 1508.05241 · arxiv_version: 1508.05241v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1508.05241 · pith_short_12: FQLGYKVQAACZ · pith_short_16: FQLGYKVQAACZQZ6E · pith_short_8: FQLGYKVQ

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/FQLGYKVQAACZQZ6EQ3MEVOASME \
  | 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: 2c166c2ab000059867c486d84ab81261145f976af7a3f5b3b5e3dd4fa9081b87

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ddfef652481faa86f2939d0836873627edb4d6918deeb7b41f12e817eed2f6c1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-fin.PM"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-fin.TR",
    "submitted_at": "2015-08-21T11:20:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b1544083a7e059fd5f118b178707175ef69c73844830988443df35ec1fb01992"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1508.05241",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}