pith. sign in
Pith Number

pith:KSR4YGNK

pith:2015:KSR4YGNK7OQQVVKL43PGYG5BX7
not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Tail probabilities of St. Petersburg sums, trimmed sums, and their limit

Istv\'an Berkes, L\'aszl\'o Gy\"orfi, P\'eter Kevei

arxiv:1507.02846 v1 · 2015-07-10 · math.PR

Add to your LaTeX paper
\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KSR4YGNK7OQQVVKL43PGYG5BX7}

Prints a linked badge after your title and injects PDF metadata. Compiles on arXiv. Learn more · Embed verified badge

Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp
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 2026-05-18T01:37:03.074609Z
Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature Pith Ed25519 (pith-v1-2026-05) · public key
Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

54a3cc19aafba10ad54be6de6c1ba1bfcafdf826a624df53d58a1d6623a165bc

Aliases

arxiv: 1507.02846 · arxiv_version: 1507.02846v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1507.02846 · pith_short_12: KSR4YGNK7OQQ · pith_short_16: KSR4YGNK7OQQVVKL · pith_short_8: KSR4YGNK
Agent API
Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/KSR4YGNK7OQQVVKL43PGYG5BX7 \
  | 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: 54a3cc19aafba10ad54be6de6c1ba1bfcafdf826a624df53d58a1d6623a165bc
Canonical record JSON
{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6c798cc4d31e218ee1fb3b8db1e5c6e4071aff696caf21da223d0fda9c404ad2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2015-07-10T11:00:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "15576e091ee95c27eb9552cdc48c64b4c610e8a1e5e5d31632d297ee8244bf99"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1507.02846",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}