Pith Number

pith:WMYJIYYP

pith:2011:WMYJIYYP2C42JGANLKERVAV42Y

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Applying Brownian motion to the study of birth-death chains

Greg Markowsky

arxiv:1103.4208 v1 · 2011-03-22 · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WMYJIYYP2C42JGANLKERVAV42Y}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T04:26:21.353588Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b33094630fd0b9a4980d5a891a82bcd61a9c99c2d06f00264e0ca69335450ce9

Aliases

arxiv: 1103.4208 · arxiv_version: 1103.4208v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1103.4208 · pith_short_12: WMYJIYYP2C42 · pith_short_16: WMYJIYYP2C42JGAN · pith_short_8: WMYJIYYP

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/WMYJIYYP2C42JGANLKERVAV42Y \
  | 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: b33094630fd0b9a4980d5a891a82bcd61a9c99c2d06f00264e0ca69335450ce9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e892a43ddc3e7477e48c0d5a2074b00c59d7321ac621c28c9b57f3b37e1e810f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2011-03-22T05:54:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f9d74e0b8013f06937fe140479c9dbd6093f2b4feaaa2ebe9781dbd0117c78d9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1103.4208",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}