Pith Number

pith:Q3NS6E7E

pith:2014:Q3NS6E7EW46YVI3ESJHUQJ7G73

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New results on a generalized coupon collector problem using Markov chains

Bruno Sericola (INRIA - IRISA), Emmanuelle Anceaume (IRISA, INRIA - SUPELEC), Yann Busnel (LINA)

arxiv:1402.5245 v1 · 2014-02-21 · math.PR · cs.DM

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:58:22.741601Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

86db2f13e4b73d8aa364924f4827e6fef5a2cd2d9f848139adcde66532fb1a69

Aliases

arxiv: 1402.5245 · arxiv_version: 1402.5245v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1402.5245 · pith_short_12: Q3NS6E7EW46Y · pith_short_16: Q3NS6E7EW46YVI3E · pith_short_8: Q3NS6E7E

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/Q3NS6E7EW46YVI3ESJHUQJ7G73 \
  | 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: 86db2f13e4b73d8aa364924f4827e6fef5a2cd2d9f848139adcde66532fb1a69

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "de54cdecf07101b6d2787635145379fc80c4df3171f6f38a3c1c0f07dd927793",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DM"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2014-02-21T10:37:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fae67e7817a84a3a58ed585b558a617fb328564927d4ae1b25ba1a929aa6cfd4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1402.5245",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}