Pith Number

pith:KFCUIQE2

pith:2015:KFCUIQE2K44KXHGR7ZXSAJCA23

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The Metropolis-Hastings algorithm

Christian P. Robert (U. Paris-Dauphine PSL & U. Warwick)

arxiv:1504.01896 v3 · 2015-04-08 · stat.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KFCUIQE2K44KXHGR7ZXSAJCA23}

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✓ 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.

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1 paper in Pith

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:21:49.184861Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

514544409a5738ab9cd1fe6f202440d6ef7b7657ad48fb0fd3695793c065c7e0

Aliases

arxiv: 1504.01896 · arxiv_version: 1504.01896v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1504.01896 · pith_short_12: KFCUIQE2K44K · pith_short_16: KFCUIQE2K44KXHGR · pith_short_8: KFCUIQE2

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/KFCUIQE2K44KXHGR7ZXSAJCA23 \
  | 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: 514544409a5738ab9cd1fe6f202440d6ef7b7657ad48fb0fd3695793c065c7e0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7451021cf74c115f020561cb8d5c0b75dffd515b6e3168a13d94ad3963ab3fb2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2015-04-08T10:13:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a84c6f8cb9c44e4742250db8f2f1113ed1b935442875caab4afbc63a01745428"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1504.01896",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}