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pith:VML7EY3J

pith:2014:VML7EY3JJABSEFK4CPRKP6WH6S

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Approximating Laplace transforms of meeting times for some symmetric Markov chains

Yu-Ting Chen

arxiv:1410.4716 v1 · 2014-10-17 · math.PR

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:39:54.856009Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ab17f26369480322155c13e2a7fac7f4abcd6dc2c7a3218cea65995dc521fc6a

Aliases

arxiv: 1410.4716 · arxiv_version: 1410.4716v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1410.4716 · pith_short_12: VML7EY3JJABS · pith_short_16: VML7EY3JJABSEFK4 · pith_short_8: VML7EY3J

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VML7EY3JJABSEFK4CPRKP6WH6S \
  | 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: ab17f26369480322155c13e2a7fac7f4abcd6dc2c7a3218cea65995dc521fc6a

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2014-10-17T13:16:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d7a6aa2f1e431689514f93041b241bc1390e3a709432e535b7ff1b773ec5d29c"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}