Pith Number

pith:KLRPEGKL

pith:2014:KLRPEGKL3KHJJQRGR7EX7USNCI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Purchasing Life Insurance to Reach a Bequest Goal

David Promislow, Erhan Bayraktar, Virginia Young

arxiv:1402.5300 v2 · 2014-02-21 · q-fin.PM

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KLRPEGKL3KHJJQRGR7EX7USNCI}

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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	2026-05-18T02:46:39.185208Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

52e2f2194bda8e94c2268fc97fd24d122d57eeedafb3a6aa305fece6fce37d0c

Aliases

arxiv: 1402.5300 · arxiv_version: 1402.5300v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1402.5300 · pith_short_12: KLRPEGKL3KHJ · pith_short_16: KLRPEGKL3KHJJQRG · pith_short_8: KLRPEGKL

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/KLRPEGKL3KHJJQRGR7EX7USNCI \
  | 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: 52e2f2194bda8e94c2268fc97fd24d122d57eeedafb3a6aa305fece6fce37d0c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2d6a31c577dd5ae7a71ae6467d1312c55bb48fb068e5454004f80be97a6a43e8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-fin.PM",
    "submitted_at": "2014-02-21T14:11:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "aa8e15a2cc105e50812121caff5947f9511bc96e84562e3bab2a8917e6d3e583"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1402.5300",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}