Pith Number

pith:O46JUBXU

pith:2010:O46JUBXUMOV2UPON3TY3R2GI3U

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The Random Walk Metropolis: Linking Theory and Practice Through a Case Study

Chris Sherlock, Gareth O. Roberts, Paul Fearnhead

arxiv:1011.6217 v1 · 2010-11-29 · stat.ME

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{O46JUBXUMOV2UPON3TY3R2GI3U}

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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	2026-05-18T04:34:36.193859Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

773c9a06f463abaa3dcddcf1b8e8c8dd3bbbb70325f0ae32fd4701d79c52bea2

Aliases

arxiv: 1011.6217 · arxiv_version: 1011.6217v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1011.6217 · pith_short_12: O46JUBXUMOV2 · pith_short_16: O46JUBXUMOV2UPON · pith_short_8: O46JUBXU

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/O46JUBXUMOV2UPON3TY3R2GI3U \
  | 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: 773c9a06f463abaa3dcddcf1b8e8c8dd3bbbb70325f0ae32fd4701d79c52bea2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "108e15f275c32c5030dda3bf387bf94775f75c37857fcad4a7470d7104b79af2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2010-11-29T12:49:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "311642cb2ef9923cb780b5071b9b04d61063994d3fad6ee4fdf4daee557bca56"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1011.6217",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}