Pith Number

pith:W5MWIGJQ

pith:2019:W5MWIGJQOWMILRPDI5AIIRZUKU

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Approximation of the first passage time distribution for the birth-death processes

Aleksejus Kononovicius, Vygintas Gontis

arxiv:1902.00924 v1 · 2019-02-03 · q-fin.ST · physics.soc-ph

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\pithnumber{W5MWIGJQOWMILRPDI5AIIRZUKU}

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:41:30.661980Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b759641930759885c5e34740844734550686dabedda65a5700dd82fd6ba40983

Aliases

arxiv: 1902.00924 · arxiv_version: 1902.00924v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1902.00924 · pith_short_12: W5MWIGJQOWMI · pith_short_16: W5MWIGJQOWMILRPD · pith_short_8: W5MWIGJQ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/W5MWIGJQOWMILRPDI5AIIRZUKU \
  | 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: b759641930759885c5e34740844734550686dabedda65a5700dd82fd6ba40983

Canonical record JSON

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    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4df39c1183829141ebc44938105c5911cd9f74ff980e3243770b7248acd441be",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-fin.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2019-02-03T16:44:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e9ce0ace7c8e54d8fe4fa6fc7020c971202fc526b437b43b3a410ca15e511b79"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1902.00924",
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  }
}