Pith Number

pith:BT64EQLK

pith:2016:BT64EQLK2JN43FCUVTQAAPZZ73

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Metropolis-Hastings algorithms with autoregressive proposals, and a few examples

Colin Fox, Richard A. Norton

arxiv:1605.05441 v2 · 2016-05-18 · stat.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BT64EQLK2JN43FCUVTQAAPZZ73}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:14:20.170941Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0cfdc2416ad25bcd9454ace0003f39fed88b104060c7c86b495aa758c006638a

Aliases

arxiv: 1605.05441 · arxiv_version: 1605.05441v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1605.05441 · pith_short_12: BT64EQLK2JN4 · pith_short_16: BT64EQLK2JN43FCU · pith_short_8: BT64EQLK

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BT64EQLK2JN43FCUVTQAAPZZ73 \
  | 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: 0cfdc2416ad25bcd9454ace0003f39fed88b104060c7c86b495aa758c006638a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "aacc535baa45f720f2cd3b36c9ba20afee8a25f6df62016ad207b41a28e29a38",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2016-05-18T05:08:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2e110fab68d67456db878964f540c123ec6f712b5889b290d5300ce50374234d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1605.05441",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}