Pith Number

pith:MDXWHSDX

pith:2019:MDXWHSDXRQZYYJNULDVO6IZEW2

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Fair Pricing of Variable Annuities with Guarantees under the Benchmark Approach

Eckhard Platen, Jin Sun, Kevin Fergusson, Pavel V. Shevchenko

arxiv:1906.01320 v1 · 2019-06-04 · q-fin.PR · q-fin.RM

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MDXWHSDXRQZYYJNULDVO6IZEW2}

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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	2026-05-17T23:44:17.024411Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

60ef63c8778c338c25b458eaef2324b6bfcd79feb8264ae9f5f823d4999c9416

Aliases

arxiv: 1906.01320 · arxiv_version: 1906.01320v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1906.01320 · pith_short_12: MDXWHSDXRQZY · pith_short_16: MDXWHSDXRQZYYJNU · pith_short_8: MDXWHSDX

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/MDXWHSDXRQZYYJNULDVO6IZEW2 \
  | 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: 60ef63c8778c338c25b458eaef2324b6bfcd79feb8264ae9f5f823d4999c9416

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1fbc72c8887698cd77844e13a55cab59adcb0ea9718711f652484b6690e16344",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-fin.RM"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-fin.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2019-06-04T10:20:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5670f353d5ba6f25cb21c67e95af21cd51afd93953e59b69d7f2a645da7b35a6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1906.01320",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}