Pith Number

pith:53GSTVKO

pith:2018:53GSTVKOKVFU5ZRWDXS3Q7YRTB

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Constructing Metropolis-Hastings proposals using damped BFGS updates

Adrian Wills, Brett Ninness, Johan Dahlin

arxiv:1801.01243 v2 · 2018-01-04 · stat.CO · q-fin.CP

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\pithnumber{53GSTVKOKVFU5ZRWDXS3Q7YRTB}

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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	2026-05-18T00:16:36.524673Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

eecd29d54e554b4ee6361de5b87f1198704da3c09460989ccbbeed8ca908aac6

Aliases

arxiv: 1801.01243 · arxiv_version: 1801.01243v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1801.01243 · pith_short_12: 53GSTVKOKVFU · pith_short_16: 53GSTVKOKVFU5ZRW · pith_short_8: 53GSTVKO

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/53GSTVKOKVFU5ZRWDXS3Q7YRTB \
  | 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: eecd29d54e554b4ee6361de5b87f1198704da3c09460989ccbbeed8ca908aac6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f559c0a3f72df084c3419dba744ca8cadec2773ffd93cafd152f76a304039b05",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-fin.CP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2018-01-04T04:33:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4a85f45b3a9ebf6844a9ae8d8a90c0f81144ed0a60da6ac44b62d83909b7e086"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1801.01243",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}