Pith Number

pith:UE3CR5OU

pith:2026:UE3CR5OUOY5H5K4IVWIGHWONBW

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On the most likely geodesic in last passage percolation

Sam McKeown, Shuta Nakajima

arxiv:2608.11378 v1 · 2026-08-11 · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UE3CR5OUOY5H5K4IVWIGHWONBW}

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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	2026-08-13T00:21:43.224296Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a13628f5d4763a7eab88ad9063d9cd0d93527c9d058b94434eee008c15d48f2d

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.11378 · arxiv_version: 2608.11378v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.11378 · pith_short_12: UE3CR5OUOY5H · pith_short_16: UE3CR5OUOY5H5K4I · pith_short_8: UE3CR5OU

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/UE3CR5OUOY5H5K4IVWIGHWONBW \
  | 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: a13628f5d4763a7eab88ad9063d9cd0d93527c9d058b94434eee008c15d48f2d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c12257dac934ebe028a500593c901ebc1912b7eae02fb8dfed2d5ff2828a78fc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-11T19:34:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d1feadeb1fd288adfa81b37e9a8e4bc0912cf516bf87e90fe4d2d6ee831d6c77"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.11378",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}