Pith Number

pith:HJQH4W4P

pith:2014:HJQH4W4PLUFM2NKSWUEOA6VFIP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Wald for non-stopping times: The rewards of impatient prophets

Alexander E. Holroyd, Jeffrey E. Steif, Yuval Peres

arxiv:1405.2674 v1 · 2014-05-12 · math.PR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HJQH4W4PLUFM2NKSWUEOA6VFIP}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T02:52:05.001039Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3a607e5b8f5d0acd3552b508e07aa543e67401126de66a14f044c6fbf995d288

Aliases

arxiv: 1405.2674 · arxiv_version: 1405.2674v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1405.2674 · pith_short_12: HJQH4W4PLUFM · pith_short_16: HJQH4W4PLUFM2NKS · pith_short_8: HJQH4W4P

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/HJQH4W4PLUFM2NKSWUEOA6VFIP \
  | 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: 3a607e5b8f5d0acd3552b508e07aa543e67401126de66a14f044c6fbf995d288

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5aac90862bfa011adec9f93ef91e035c3e451e7a01dbe59e2b08f1a2d6156093",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2014-05-12T08:46:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "958c80740a255b702c70aa025c30df37ce7fbaf2510e5e658a0cec8cd4bfe892"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1405.2674",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}