Pith Number

pith:JQ3GIQAV

pith:2019:JQ3GIQAV6JKIOB4J6HPSJUFAXH

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Gambler's ruin estimates on finite inner uniform domains

Kelsey Houston-Edwards, Laurent Saloff-Coste, Persi Diaconis

arxiv:1906.04879 v1 · 2019-06-12 · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JQ3GIQAV6JKIOB4J6HPSJUFAXH}

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:43:30.268620Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4c36644015f254870789f1df24d0a0b9e6524adb32f4e28d7fa45c425a5fa9f1

Aliases

arxiv: 1906.04879 · arxiv_version: 1906.04879v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1906.04879 · pith_short_12: JQ3GIQAV6JKI · pith_short_16: JQ3GIQAV6JKIOB4J · pith_short_8: JQ3GIQAV

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/JQ3GIQAV6JKIOB4J6HPSJUFAXH \
  | 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: 4c36644015f254870789f1df24d0a0b9e6524adb32f4e28d7fa45c425a5fa9f1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "75c732029ad3038c9127b9673b61d125c3315cef3ee75b2101a9735ced793e5b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2019-06-12T01:41:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5f4d96309025a1a89a37bb89c0db28797323b6cc7c77525fa29889bbfc6b86d8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1906.04879",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}