Pith Number

pith:S5KCK4KW

pith:2009:S5KCK4KWU5WCLTH5VOOXE3NQBC

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A cautionary tale on the efficiency of some adaptive Monte Carlo schemes

Yves F. Atchad\'e

arxiv:0901.1378 v3 · 2009-01-10 · stat.CO · math.PR · math.ST · stat.ME · stat.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{S5KCK4KWU5WCLTH5VOOXE3NQBC}

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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	2026-05-18T04:39:18.452193Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9754257156a76c25ccfdab9d726db008b84ab1feb1842cc2b0b2238f6ed3ea73

Aliases

arxiv: 0901.1378 · arxiv_version: 0901.1378v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0901.1378 · pith_short_12: S5KCK4KWU5WC · pith_short_16: S5KCK4KWU5WCLTH5 · pith_short_8: S5KCK4KW

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/S5KCK4KWU5WCLTH5VOOXE3NQBC \
  | 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: 9754257156a76c25ccfdab9d726db008b84ab1feb1842cc2b0b2238f6ed3ea73

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "818bcc61470770ebcf75b0109cb0d8ba69aab087165d6e8a9ed710e917c2b19d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.PR",
      "math.ST",
      "stat.ME",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2009-01-10T14:16:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8a4ee69ebb7d4167bac20fa55ef3c0670b753a7ff1af468bf076f15b5fa66038"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0901.1378",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}