Pith Number

pith:B2I2C7SY

pith:2011:B2I2C7SYJ5I5YANTRY2ZXAAV3U

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A probability-conserving cross-section biasing mechanism for variance reduction in Monte Carlo particle transport calculations

Marcus H. Mendenhall, Robert A. Weller

arxiv:1109.0910 v2 · 2011-09-05 · physics.comp-ph · cs.NA

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First computed	2026-05-18T04:06:45.984684Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0e91a17e584f51dc01b38e359b8015dd3055a79f6600939ec2ce0fd321b86436

Aliases

arxiv: 1109.0910 · arxiv_version: 1109.0910v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1109.0910 · pith_short_12: B2I2C7SYJ5I5 · pith_short_16: B2I2C7SYJ5I5YANT · pith_short_8: B2I2C7SY

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/B2I2C7SYJ5I5YANTRY2ZXAAV3U \
  | 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: 0e91a17e584f51dc01b38e359b8015dd3055a79f6600939ec2ce0fd321b86436

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "01130c84721691ddd71294526f3f5dbda38199520d83459251b28573a569cefa",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.NA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.comp-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-09-05T14:20:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7b91527fcece6c025361d6c90ed6ed78199176555d56efaf9d01563dd6dab2ca"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}