Pith Number

pith:IECHVXLV

pith:2009:IECHVXLVQBO2XK6XXEJLSVLAO2

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Maximizing the probability of attaining a target prior to extinction

Debasish Chatterjee, Eugenio Cinquemani, John Lygeros

arxiv:0904.4143 v4 · 2009-04-27 · math.OC · math.PR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IECHVXLVQBO2XK6XXEJLSVLAO2}

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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	2026-05-18T04:31:31.342423Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

41047add75805dababd7b912b95560769ad935aea8a44dea84eb55536d0e73d8

Aliases

arxiv: 0904.4143 · arxiv_version: 0904.4143v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0904.4143 · pith_short_12: IECHVXLVQBO2 · pith_short_16: IECHVXLVQBO2XK6X · pith_short_8: IECHVXLV

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/IECHVXLVQBO2XK6XXEJLSVLAO2 \
  | 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: 41047add75805dababd7b912b95560769ad935aea8a44dea84eb55536d0e73d8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "407fd6ddc194db7cceefcf204feaeb8ccc360bbc3bee4e991656aa22c7908700",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.PR"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2009-04-27T19:33:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "28164176e7b46c1cc30efb07f3031be7dcdc36719fddae6604f60aa54b927b50"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0904.4143",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}