Pith Number

pith:X4YYFBL2

pith:2017:X4YYFBL2PCFP554PWDV62DVQH5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Option pricing: A yet simpler approach

Jarno Talponen, Minna Turunen

arxiv:1705.00212 v3 · 2017-04-29 · q-fin.MF · math.PR · q-fin.PR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{X4YYFBL2PCFP554PWDV62DVQH5}

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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	2026-05-18T00:22:16.240685Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bf3182857a788afef78fb0ebed0eb03f5879cec98bcbc6ca7a01c3d452c92e60

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.00212 · arxiv_version: 1705.00212v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.00212 · pith_short_12: X4YYFBL2PCFP · pith_short_16: X4YYFBL2PCFP554P · pith_short_8: X4YYFBL2

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/X4YYFBL2PCFP554PWDV62DVQH5 \
  | 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: bf3182857a788afef78fb0ebed0eb03f5879cec98bcbc6ca7a01c3d452c92e60

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a8e48077cfd7cb0d2ce235dd391a582e99d2da66c02c716c3b1b38ee8005826b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.PR",
      "q-fin.PR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-fin.MF",
    "submitted_at": "2017-04-29T16:39:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "642ebb651659f0cd2f32ab92d20645b918ede89c69cc481ec92320380415eede"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.00212",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}