Pith Number

pith:OTTJASEB

pith:1997:OTTJASEBJJ6CI7HZLLEKAI7HED

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Markov chains in a field of traps

Robin Pemantle, Stanislav Volkov

arxiv:math/9701223 v1 · 1997-01-23 · math.PR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OTTJASEBJJ6CI7HZLLEKAI7HED}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T01:05:37.239664Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

74e69048814a7c247cf95ac8a023e720daadfc90f93f828fd61e5d52c1cd1d80

Aliases

arxiv: math/9701223 · arxiv_version: math/9701223v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.math/9701223 · pith_short_12: OTTJASEBJJ6C · pith_short_16: OTTJASEBJJ6CI7HZ · pith_short_8: OTTJASEB

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/OTTJASEBJJ6CI7HZLLEKAI7HED \
  | 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: 74e69048814a7c247cf95ac8a023e720daadfc90f93f828fd61e5d52c1cd1d80

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "56507eb7927df1bd209cc940beeb2aef2066223fcaef6f461b6e1094e4536f82",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "1997-01-23T00:00:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "747c8f4b1da7ab7ff8ee3ba7d075385aade3bc49970b59f01f45f9b09c0c3ec2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "math/9701223",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}