Pith Number

pith:7HA2PGXM

pith:2014:7HA2PGXMK65EBRVI4GEBRY7YF7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Purchasing Term Life Insurance to Reach a Bequest Goal while Consuming

David Promislow, Erhan Bayraktar, Virginia Young

arxiv:1412.2262 v3 · 2014-12-06 · q-fin.PM

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7HA2PGXMK65EBRVI4GEBRY7YF7}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T01:19:57.556259Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f9c1a79aec57ba40c6a8e18818e3f82fe33b091221c02c8a1dc72822a768c482

Aliases

arxiv: 1412.2262 · arxiv_version: 1412.2262v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1412.2262 · pith_short_12: 7HA2PGXMK65E · pith_short_16: 7HA2PGXMK65EBRVI · pith_short_8: 7HA2PGXM

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/7HA2PGXMK65EBRVI4GEBRY7YF7 \
  | 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: f9c1a79aec57ba40c6a8e18818e3f82fe33b091221c02c8a1dc72822a768c482

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "320defec6100e103361dd498847667f5bfddfb61e7f002c435c7789f09d22d44",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-fin.PM",
    "submitted_at": "2014-12-06T19:04:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4617d1857e063af73ee5175db8ac059a738723e147326d4fd01a32c17c97e274"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1412.2262",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}