Pith Number

pith:LWVSCNM5

pith:2026:LWVSCNM5UN3V3YSUCA355VB5AN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

When should one stop the most exciting game? Sequential Inference for win-martingales

Karl Kristian Engelund, Steven Campbell

arxiv:2608.12291 v1 · 2026-08-12 · math.PR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LWVSCNM5UN3V3YSUCA355VB5AN}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-08-13T01:30:43.967926Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5dab21359da3775de2541037ded43d0345dd90a83a8aec7077330222dacb0164

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.12291 · arxiv_version: 2608.12291v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.12291 · pith_short_12: LWVSCNM5UN3V · pith_short_16: LWVSCNM5UN3V3YSU · pith_short_8: LWVSCNM5

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/LWVSCNM5UN3V3YSUCA355VB5AN \
  | 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: 5dab21359da3775de2541037ded43d0345dd90a83a8aec7077330222dacb0164

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5194517a7f2ec2232250b6afcc4c29d34645c599ee8d2bcf72261f2369f3dab7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-12T17:35:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c1c2c19d5e056ed7d7ee39a9dced30dfde8b27e014f88df48f9f3d660eff23a7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.12291",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}