Pith Number

pith:DQ7MMW4M

pith:2015:DQ7MMW4MZLXEN3RTDSPHV7H3RN

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The asymptotics of group Russian roulette

Ronald Meester, Tim van de Brug, Wouter Kager

arxiv:1507.03805 v2 · 2015-07-14 · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DQ7MMW4MZLXEN3RTDSPHV7H3RN}

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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	2026-05-18T00:45:20.322202Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1c3ec65b8ccaee46ee331c9e7afcfb8b490e577e1881a1ba30a9242aa40ceda5

Aliases

arxiv: 1507.03805 · arxiv_version: 1507.03805v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1507.03805 · pith_short_12: DQ7MMW4MZLXE · pith_short_16: DQ7MMW4MZLXEN3RT · pith_short_8: DQ7MMW4M

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/DQ7MMW4MZLXEN3RTDSPHV7H3RN \
  | 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: 1c3ec65b8ccaee46ee331c9e7afcfb8b490e577e1881a1ba30a9242aa40ceda5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6c84204dbb4fd7ae8f1c7c647e02567e4df2fd2e410a7edf1f712858456dddff",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2015-07-14T11:14:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2a851544cf1783894fc1ebb21db8a95b09ce59d41f03180b387bf3475436fa41"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1507.03805",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}