Pith Number

pith:JL4WYXEW

pith:2014:JL4WYXEW2QOU4PWOQF44KRYJVG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Coalescence and meeting times on $n$-block Markov chains

Kathleen Lan, Kevin McGoff

arxiv:1410.0099 v1 · 2014-10-01 · math.PR · math.DS

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JL4WYXEW2QOU4PWOQF44KRYJVG}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T02:41:18.027519Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4af96c5c96d41d4e3ece8179c54709a98d7ed3621ebcd8dff1d0c140b19698ae

Aliases

arxiv: 1410.0099 · arxiv_version: 1410.0099v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1410.0099 · pith_short_12: JL4WYXEW2QOU · pith_short_16: JL4WYXEW2QOU4PWO · pith_short_8: JL4WYXEW

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/JL4WYXEW2QOU4PWOQF44KRYJVG \
  | 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: 4af96c5c96d41d4e3ece8179c54709a98d7ed3621ebcd8dff1d0c140b19698ae

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d2cff204611fbd27aac6a03c290dcb7968a24e376ac6c8c2bf1594b79de03b82",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.DS"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2014-10-01T03:35:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "09001812a1fbe2d24f88d629b07ba9fd06d3a256389919f0900ab969384b5439"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1410.0099",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}