Pith Number

pith:XTFBIPC5

pith:2018:XTFBIPC56DVMCCGXWAWA5R6JBJ

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On some random walk problems

Chak Hei Lo

arxiv:1802.06623 v1 · 2018-02-19 · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XTFBIPC56DVMCCGXWAWA5R6JBJ}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T00:23:02.762518Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bcca143c5df0eac108d7b02c0ec7c90a407af6770ba62a69bddabc7a8e64bbc9

Aliases

arxiv: 1802.06623 · arxiv_version: 1802.06623v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1802.06623 · pith_short_12: XTFBIPC56DVM · pith_short_16: XTFBIPC56DVMCCGX · pith_short_8: XTFBIPC5

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/XTFBIPC56DVMCCGXWAWA5R6JBJ \
  | 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: bcca143c5df0eac108d7b02c0ec7c90a407af6770ba62a69bddabc7a8e64bbc9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "446a8fc32ab74b555c7697dd78693b2ec351efc150ddff80d5cfba709438087d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2018-02-19T13:38:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6eb95599faa23397a3d8f067dac14e0dedcc5ac4cfd31b0a5d6c8a02314e5115"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1802.06623",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}