Pith Number

pith:H4MXJZU7

pith:2006:H4MXJZU7BXUGQT4LPIBGUTQOLJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Perfect simulation for a class of positive recurrent Markov chains

Stephen B. Connor, Wilfrid S. Kendall

arxiv:math/0601174 v3 · 2006-01-09 · math.PR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{H4MXJZU7BXUGQT4LPIBGUTQOLJ}

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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	2026-05-18T04:08:53.670852Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3f1974e69f0de8684f8b7a026a4e0e5a5600925a4261c582e27ed7f19f87f41a

Aliases

arxiv: math/0601174 · arxiv_version: math/0601174v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.math/0601174 · pith_short_12: H4MXJZU7BXUG · pith_short_16: H4MXJZU7BXUGQT4L · pith_short_8: H4MXJZU7

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/H4MXJZU7BXUGQT4LPIBGUTQOLJ \
  | 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: 3f1974e69f0de8684f8b7a026a4e0e5a5600925a4261c582e27ed7f19f87f41a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1f8b9a1ab96fcabb25795661ee1a351c5c209d3df801673a6c493581de95e50a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2006-01-09T14:14:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bdab0bb6885b9bc8ea75b7e9b1c5d5f85cc64b839118e4e2093a090577b9f010"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "math/0601174",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}