Pith Number

pith:BCNLLKVB

pith:2016:BCNLLKVBLN4I5ATO3VBVW7NZTA

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The critical Galton-Watson process vanishes

Olivier Garet

arxiv:1610.02866 v1 · 2016-10-10 · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BCNLLKVBLN4I5ATO3VBVW7NZTA}

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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	2026-05-18T01:02:50.530815Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

089ab5aaa15b788e826edd435b7db99816ce32053374d173deb4bbe4edbae4e0

Aliases

arxiv: 1610.02866 · arxiv_version: 1610.02866v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1610.02866 · pith_short_12: BCNLLKVBLN4I · pith_short_16: BCNLLKVBLN4I5ATO · pith_short_8: BCNLLKVB

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/BCNLLKVBLN4I5ATO3VBVW7NZTA \
  | 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: 089ab5aaa15b788e826edd435b7db99816ce32053374d173deb4bbe4edbae4e0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5f29882d9f7762654da4bef5c2ad987fc0adcdb641973c5a62b254b305e27ae3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2016-10-10T11:48:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "735e329a443947b725da7a7d6650eebf4e275a91b05c477ae71bf48a08c49148"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1610.02866",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}