Pith Number

pith:OBQXRUCT

pith:2014:OBQXRUCTMVZ7RYY65ZVNUFA6KY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Gambling in contests with random initial law

David Hobson, Han Feng

arxiv:1405.7801 v2 · 2014-05-30 · q-fin.EC · math.PR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OBQXRUCTMVZ7RYY65ZVNUFA6KY}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:21:19.992120Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

706178d0536573f8e31eee6ada141e561d571cf6ee466a1d93c0123d69e0f2ee

Aliases

arxiv: 1405.7801 · arxiv_version: 1405.7801v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1405.7801 · pith_short_12: OBQXRUCTMVZ7 · pith_short_16: OBQXRUCTMVZ7RYY6 · pith_short_8: OBQXRUCT

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/OBQXRUCTMVZ7RYY65ZVNUFA6KY \
  | 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: 706178d0536573f8e31eee6ada141e561d571cf6ee466a1d93c0123d69e0f2ee

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "50dd5b4f50671edfdd6948e987f9f67aafd2ed01a0cebd633713f80c0e549259",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.PR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-fin.EC",
    "submitted_at": "2014-05-30T09:03:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6ffaa5967d094f99dc91cd88435865235986e11c5537e87c42e2d80dc388bf2b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1405.7801",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}