Pith Number

pith:6OW47UCF

pith:2017:6OW47UCFR5CH43YPWY6AN4JNUC

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On the number of points skipped by a transient (1,2) random walk on the line

Hua-Ming Wang

arxiv:1707.06423 v1 · 2017-07-20 · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6OW47UCFR5CH43YPWY6AN4JNUC}

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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	2026-05-18T00:39:53.863873Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f3adcfd0458f447e6f0fb63c06f12da0a2495743c347040ac1b1547fbb90dabd

Aliases

arxiv: 1707.06423 · arxiv_version: 1707.06423v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1707.06423 · pith_short_12: 6OW47UCFR5CH · pith_short_16: 6OW47UCFR5CH43YP · pith_short_8: 6OW47UCF

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/6OW47UCFR5CH43YPWY6AN4JNUC \
  | 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: f3adcfd0458f447e6f0fb63c06f12da0a2495743c347040ac1b1547fbb90dabd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "552710358913d0779018ca5fd10f188158dd62c55175008d81c20624ae8d004f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-07-20T09:24:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "59d2cf4416fc41ac2be53b2a93362664d7694e898f5ed28e33db2e1c4d4165c6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1707.06423",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}