Pith Number

pith:IBV2QWFC

pith:2015:IBV2QWFCM3ZCCR2AVAKCROGXYP

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Combining losing games into a winning game

Bruno R\'emillard, Jean Vaillancourt

arxiv:1507.07910 v4 · 2015-07-28 · math.PR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IBV2QWFCM3ZCCR2AVAKCROGXYP}

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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	2026-05-18T00:43:18.821339Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

406ba858a266f2214740a81428b8d7c3e2f819c9bc222779e6acdf26965df295

Aliases

arxiv: 1507.07910 · arxiv_version: 1507.07910v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1507.07910 · pith_short_12: IBV2QWFCM3ZC · pith_short_16: IBV2QWFCM3ZCCR2A · pith_short_8: IBV2QWFC

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/IBV2QWFCM3ZCCR2AVAKCROGXYP \
  | 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: 406ba858a266f2214740a81428b8d7c3e2f819c9bc222779e6acdf26965df295

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0e4cd44fbfe7f3674c5b4ccfb46c7770664d69147ed01bd429cbc92df9e4c683",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2015-07-28T19:35:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b472212d48d97b9f9206a4dd04d1d1e43246497001451aed8a76dde928e15367"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1507.07910",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}