Pith Number

pith:JQW6NWPW

pith:2002:JQW6NWPWPMRXEWWNWVRJQDYAC7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The physical basis for Parrondo's games

Andrew Allison, Derek Abbott

arxiv:cond-mat/0208470 v1 · 2002-08-24 · cond-mat.stat-mech

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JQW6NWPWPMRXEWWNWVRJQDYAC7}

Prints a linked badge after your title and injects PDF metadata. Compiles on arXiv. Learn more · Embed verified badge

Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T03:40:37.294479Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4c2de6d9f67b23725acdb562980f0017c986d9057d4e6622615c8aae9e359949

Aliases

arxiv: cond-mat/0208470 · arxiv_version: cond-mat/0208470v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0208470 · pith_short_12: JQW6NWPWPMRX · pith_short_16: JQW6NWPWPMRXEWWN · pith_short_8: JQW6NWPW

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/JQW6NWPWPMRXEWWNWVRJQDYAC7 \
  | 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: 4c2de6d9f67b23725acdb562980f0017c986d9057d4e6622615c8aae9e359949

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9c86ee3527c89a084685cdba6c3adc15935c28d4170a7bed869aca7f6d2fd270",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "submitted_at": "2002-08-24T14:49:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "348e152edb3b750fb6d2d407d60c0e7a77ba19e5366a60d5b2ffb8a04775d478"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "cond-mat/0208470",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}