Pith Number

pith:NA6KWVNO

pith:2006:NA6KWVNO5KDJGQFMFPTNIKE7J2

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Variational method for estimating the rate of convergence of Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithms

Christopher R. Myers, Fergal P. Casey, James P. Sethna, Joshua J. Waterfall, Ryan N. Gutenkunst

arxiv:physics/0609001 v3 · 2006-08-31 · physics.data-an · physics.comp-ph

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First computed	2026-05-18T03:24:20.844325Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

683cab55aeea869340ac2be6d4289f4e9423a60d5b002d10707cf323f4d7d617

Aliases

arxiv: physics/0609001 · arxiv_version: physics/0609001v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.physics/0609001 · pith_short_12: NA6KWVNO5KDJ · pith_short_16: NA6KWVNO5KDJGQFM · pith_short_8: NA6KWVNO

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NA6KWVNO5KDJGQFMFPTNIKE7J2 \
  | 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: 683cab55aeea869340ac2be6d4289f4e9423a60d5b002d10707cf323f4d7d617

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d801640181fa5019c233f260baf6fad27384813080c34be2937dd6fb5ba14c4d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.comp-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.data-an",
    "submitted_at": "2006-08-31T20:30:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f72909179bc7cc0d76edba51fcdcef8c3385a649cebbba5751a83ec77c8a994b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "physics/0609001",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}