Pith Number

pith:SMN5CFKR

pith:2011:SMN5CFKRVXSSEXFNJKIKUKF4BS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Greedy walk on the real line

Leonardo T. Rolla, Sergey Foss, Vladas Sidoravicius

arxiv:1111.4846 v5 · 2011-11-21 · math.PR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SMN5CFKRVXSSEXFNJKIKUKF4BS}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T02:03:53.143891Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

931bd11551ade5225cad4a90aa28bc0caf76f3da86a5fe84dff424d1a5d1a42a

Aliases

arxiv: 1111.4846 · arxiv_version: 1111.4846v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1111.4846 · pith_short_12: SMN5CFKRVXSS · pith_short_16: SMN5CFKRVXSSEXFN · pith_short_8: SMN5CFKR

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/SMN5CFKRVXSSEXFNJKIKUKF4BS \
  | 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: 931bd11551ade5225cad4a90aa28bc0caf76f3da86a5fe84dff424d1a5d1a42a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "81ab7fc44f6e80aa95dd1cdd58ad8621c5551766050aeade29927526a6d382f0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2011-11-21T12:12:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0311788c81d216780d866689b532adcabf775c090c1e83d075bd0c5b9940e49e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1111.4846",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}