Pith Number

pith:FVWC6NZ2

pith:2019:FVWC6NZ2EG7V3IK23VI4EVSB4Y

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Expected capture time and throttling number for cop versus gambler

Carl Joshua Quines, Espen Slettnes, Jesse Geneson, Shen-Fu Tsai

arxiv:1902.05860 v3 · 2019-02-10 · cs.DM · math.CO · math.PR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FVWC6NZ2EG7V3IK23VI4EVSB4Y}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-17T23:44:37.754058Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2d6c2f373a21bf5da15add51c25641e6318e22bccc9038b8a8448c0fdd69c55e

Aliases

arxiv: 1902.05860 · arxiv_version: 1902.05860v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1902.05860 · pith_short_12: FVWC6NZ2EG7V · pith_short_16: FVWC6NZ2EG7V3IK2 · pith_short_8: FVWC6NZ2

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/FVWC6NZ2EG7V3IK23VI4EVSB4Y \
  | 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: 2d6c2f373a21bf5da15add51c25641e6318e22bccc9038b8a8448c0fdd69c55e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "09b8b7a27f8000494ef19544090a54f5483abe1e7028c5600cc2d01e3a451392",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.CO",
      "math.PR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DM",
    "submitted_at": "2019-02-10T01:42:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2f78af656d1de8e7513ad9a07bf05572998899dad5e2314864d4e1efa2753ad7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1902.05860",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}