Pith Number

pith:3AX7JRHJ

pith:2015:3AX7JRHJZPQBBLVPMUCFLKKIXZ

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Sampling constrained probability distributions using Spherical Augmentation

Babak Shahbaba, Shiwei Lan

arxiv:1506.05936 v1 · 2015-06-19 · stat.CO · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3AX7JRHJZPQBBLVPMUCFLKKIXZ}

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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	2026-05-18T01:42:46.795816Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d82ff4c4e9cbe010aeaf650455a948be505e031089e70cde4fdd51da8cf08f6e

Aliases

arxiv: 1506.05936 · arxiv_version: 1506.05936v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1506.05936 · pith_short_12: 3AX7JRHJZPQB · pith_short_16: 3AX7JRHJZPQBBLVP · pith_short_8: 3AX7JRHJ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/3AX7JRHJZPQBBLVPMUCFLKKIXZ \
  | 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: d82ff4c4e9cbe010aeaf650455a948be505e031089e70cde4fdd51da8cf08f6e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d52efeb155844fd45ec17382798e215c1e678891d0506a7e3e6ca897d25dbc7f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2015-06-19T09:44:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "61eef82ef12548e80b8c91f2c2f6e61675991142506e72dac0d90e8750cd4f3c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1506.05936",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}