Pith Number

pith:4DMQCIQ4

pith:2005:4DMQCIQ4Y3CSPQXE2MYHNT6RBH

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A Definition of Metastability for Markov Processes with Detailed Balance

David P. Sanders, Francois Leyvraz, Hernan Larralde

arxiv:cond-mat/0509754 v1 · 2005-09-29 · cond-mat.stat-mech

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4DMQCIQ4Y3CSPQXE2MYHNT6RBH}

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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	2026-05-18T01:06:52.077881Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e0d901221cc6c527c2e4d33076cfd109e53a8fdaa3bd2cd46a9b7d66d1a9c79b

Aliases

arxiv: cond-mat/0509754 · arxiv_version: cond-mat/0509754v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0509754 · pith_short_12: 4DMQCIQ4Y3CS · pith_short_16: 4DMQCIQ4Y3CSPQXE · pith_short_8: 4DMQCIQ4

Agent API

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4DMQCIQ4Y3CSPQXE2MYHNT6RBH \
  | 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: e0d901221cc6c527c2e4d33076cfd109e53a8fdaa3bd2cd46a9b7d66d1a9c79b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "23f201d605bea4a2b4f5413a628062632b49b5faeb1b9b6921b800eb2bee48dd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "submitted_at": "2005-09-29T02:48:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "aa63fad928eb09c62859203edcb22d7a5862ff284245b008873cb5cc616a2258"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "cond-mat/0509754",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}