Pith Number

pith:LNFCMFYH

pith:2008:LNFCMFYH5ZHNJ6KDCKYH6EQFAB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Tail asymptotics for a random sign Lindley recursion

Maria Vlasiou, Zbigniew Palmowski

arxiv:0808.3495 v2 · 2008-08-26 · math.PR · math.ST · stat.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LNFCMFYH5ZHNJ6KDCKYH6EQFAB}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:53:42.096674Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5b4a261707ee4ed4f94312b07f120500680e28750a7697824fbe4776d882c917

Aliases

arxiv: 0808.3495 · arxiv_version: 0808.3495v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0808.3495 · pith_short_12: LNFCMFYH5ZHN · pith_short_16: LNFCMFYH5ZHNJ6KD · pith_short_8: LNFCMFYH

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/LNFCMFYH5ZHNJ6KDCKYH6EQFAB \
  | 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: 5b4a261707ee4ed4f94312b07f120500680e28750a7697824fbe4776d882c917

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0ee4a70092873f0bda0a3b454003f241fdcda0f99ae8e0e3c7c6c98115f72397",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.ST",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2008-08-26T12:06:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bc792e6b7e6a891d34f3fd0886f15b133c3b25e9f7bb1ac71b060d6a00077fa2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0808.3495",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}