Pith Number

pith:S4APDJIR

pith:2017:S4APDJIRQ4TBJOCUE6XRN3MUHE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A random walk with catastrophes

Alexander Roitershtein, Iddo Ben-Ari, Rinaldo B. Schinazi

arxiv:1709.04780 v1 · 2017-09-14 · math.PR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{S4APDJIRQ4TBJOCUE6XRN3MUHE}

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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	2026-05-17T23:51:34.448283Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9700f1a511872614b85427af16ed94392aad8fd1d89868e908502e9bf5dadd6d

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.04780 · arxiv_version: 1709.04780v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.04780 · pith_short_12: S4APDJIRQ4TB · pith_short_16: S4APDJIRQ4TBJOCU · pith_short_8: S4APDJIR

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/S4APDJIRQ4TBJOCUE6XRN3MUHE \
  | 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: 9700f1a511872614b85427af16ed94392aad8fd1d89868e908502e9bf5dadd6d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a5880c261df8d1ae655b20e3e05ffffeb866a9a8ae6573aaa36f60afd05b2e43",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-14T13:28:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9007ce3a16ff42e82e026487f71115c8e7c2f4762018aeb9847bca0bf7cd5b8f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.04780",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}