Pith Number

pith:H5LDLFT3

pith:2012:H5LDLFT3BRD5Z45MCVZGXJOYC3

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Efficient Rare-event Simulation for Perpetuities

Bert Zwart, Henry Lam, Jose Blanchet

arxiv:1201.3419 v1 · 2012-01-17 · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{H5LDLFT3BRD5Z45MCVZGXJOYC3}

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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	2026-05-18T04:04:29.363224Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3f5635967b0c47dcf3ac15726ba5d816cd1840fcf7e1acab59fa41db15a08579

Aliases

arxiv: 1201.3419 · arxiv_version: 1201.3419v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1201.3419 · pith_short_12: H5LDLFT3BRD5 · pith_short_16: H5LDLFT3BRD5Z45M · pith_short_8: H5LDLFT3

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/H5LDLFT3BRD5Z45MCVZGXJOYC3 \
  | 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: 3f5635967b0c47dcf3ac15726ba5d816cd1840fcf7e1acab59fa41db15a08579

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f54fb9c2c2f30189bfc9389a32930ad400f2d3f692edde35c9866bb10ce243ad",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2012-01-17T03:45:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "58ebaa5234ab30dc0adfef2a16f1adcdb22dabceacff146f45bc53dbcc9f24cc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1201.3419",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}