Pith Number

pith:VHQGBUMF

pith:2016:VHQGBUMFIQ3BDRZJXVQ3G2IS4V

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Order statistics of horse racing and the randomly broken stick

Julius Bonart, Peter A. Bebbington

arxiv:1612.02567 v1 · 2016-12-08 · q-fin.ST

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VHQGBUMFIQ3BDRZJXVQ3G2IS4V}

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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	2026-05-18T00:55:33.359756Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a9e060d185443611c729bd61b36912e55ab92d5e48ee654ba8c11e061dde6fa2

Aliases

arxiv: 1612.02567 · arxiv_version: 1612.02567v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1612.02567 · pith_short_12: VHQGBUMFIQ3B · pith_short_16: VHQGBUMFIQ3BDRZJ · pith_short_8: VHQGBUMF

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/VHQGBUMFIQ3BDRZJXVQ3G2IS4V \
  | 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: a9e060d185443611c729bd61b36912e55ab92d5e48ee654ba8c11e061dde6fa2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3f4c18248e3893c5482b73549308b30037a933463ad5dffbafe75b059990bf84",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-fin.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2016-12-08T09:07:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c6e8b0acb1203abb30d8373c932320f31dd4f416d332621005a20ecfc1259bbe"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1612.02567",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}