Pith Number

pith:ZX6OXWC7

pith:2010:ZX6OXWC7DBMJGVVZIHXLD3WHBO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Insuring against loss of evidence in game-theoretic probability

Alexander Shen, A. Philip Dawid, Glenn Shafer, Nikolai Vereshchagin, Steven de Rooij, Vladimir Vovk

arxiv:1005.1811 v2 · 2010-05-11 · math.ST · math.PR · q-fin.TR · stat.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZX6OXWC7DBMJGVVZIHXLD3WHBO}

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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	2026-05-18T04:35:06.021883Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cdfcebd85f18589356b941eeb1eec70bbbc83133160fb094b701e8f0670b9ecb

Aliases

arxiv: 1005.1811 · arxiv_version: 1005.1811v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1005.1811 · pith_short_12: ZX6OXWC7DBMJ · pith_short_16: ZX6OXWC7DBMJGVVZ · pith_short_8: ZX6OXWC7

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/ZX6OXWC7DBMJGVVZIHXLD3WHBO \
  | 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: cdfcebd85f18589356b941eeb1eec70bbbc83133160fb094b701e8f0670b9ecb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e028cb16736b2b3c0e9f32ed9df888ea1561747392c2fd4af7de5b933ebe017b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.PR",
      "q-fin.TR",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2010-05-11T12:12:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a95b92373352c2b38901ca2af3f4930d5b81a82014c2abe7809288d59351a4d5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1005.1811",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}