Pith Number

pith:O6BXH5PW

pith:2015:O6BXH5PWE6TETFIWZNLQLOPVU4

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The maximum of a tree-indexed random walk in the big jump domain

Pascal Maillard

arxiv:1505.04949 v3 · 2015-05-19 · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{O6BXH5PWE6TETFIWZNLQLOPVU4}

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4 Citations open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:12:57.265575Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

778373f5f627a6499516cb5705b9f5a70eb17dcbb768b5fc2770a9139b596993

Aliases

arxiv: 1505.04949 · arxiv_version: 1505.04949v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1505.04949 · pith_short_12: O6BXH5PWE6TE · pith_short_16: O6BXH5PWE6TETFIW · pith_short_8: O6BXH5PW

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/O6BXH5PWE6TETFIWZNLQLOPVU4 \
  | 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: 778373f5f627a6499516cb5705b9f5a70eb17dcbb768b5fc2770a9139b596993

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "eaed847d5e37d1e7d890d3eeaeebcaf795a057923b6e3c6fa681b37cc32f88ae",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2015-05-19T10:38:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "50963fb8ffd2084c39f41328809f65a1a570431762b85372245d8ec864a38192"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1505.04949",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}