Pith Number

pith:YLN6LMUB

pith:2017:YLN6LMUBKEXNLGVLIPBDDBCACC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Game of Random Variables

Artem Hulko, Mark Whitmeyer

arxiv:1712.08716 v4 · 2017-12-23 · math.PR · cs.GT · q-fin.EC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YLN6LMUBKEXNLGVLIPBDDBCACC}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:17:53.806976Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c2dbe5b281512ed59aab43c2318440108e9f00ba225791c60bb17b69961e15bc

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.08716 · arxiv_version: 1712.08716v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.08716 · pith_short_12: YLN6LMUBKEXN · pith_short_16: YLN6LMUBKEXNLGVL · pith_short_8: YLN6LMUB

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/YLN6LMUBKEXNLGVLIPBDDBCACC \
  | 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: c2dbe5b281512ed59aab43c2318440108e9f00ba225791c60bb17b69961e15bc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8ac06a665839c93b2ccc09568ce1347629ea6faac93807ff66f0c76872e5d653",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.GT",
      "q-fin.EC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-23T05:11:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "989d335d3848934002306939155edaea14b022e040b2d0fd14e8acda37891490"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.08716",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}