Pith Number

pith:L5WDSHNU

pith:2018:L5WDSHNUJAEXHWFYQXF3G2J6RD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quasi Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods

Ben Calderhead, Tobias Schwedes

arxiv:1807.00070 v3 · 2018-06-29 · math.ST · math.PR · stat.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{L5WDSHNUJAEXHWFYQXF3G2J6RD}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:04:22.698089Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5f6c391db4480973d8b885cbb3693e88dded9e10a2332810a336b8b990266da3

Aliases

arxiv: 1807.00070 · arxiv_version: 1807.00070v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1807.00070 · pith_short_12: L5WDSHNUJAEX · pith_short_16: L5WDSHNUJAEXHWFY · pith_short_8: L5WDSHNU

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/L5WDSHNUJAEXHWFYQXF3G2J6RD \
  | 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: 5f6c391db4480973d8b885cbb3693e88dded9e10a2332810a336b8b990266da3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "df685f4ea29f3093d0ee27f6209f5dfe62491e3ec4cc31514f0b8fc368671b7c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.PR",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2018-06-29T21:11:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8c61e72b43362b50a6d0d973a0f38168c772e2e169ee8969cf65f7d1d69988da"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1807.00070",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}