Pith Number

pith:5V4VZ5CW

pith:2006:5V4VZ5CW3OR5A2HDEB37NWIEGS

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Fast simulated annealing in $\R^d$ and an application to maximum likelihood estimation

Magnus Wiktorsson (CENTRE for Mathematical Sciences), Sylvain Rubenthaler (JAD), Tobias Ryd\'en (CENTRE for Mathematical Sciences)

arxiv:math/0609353 v1 · 2006-09-13 · math.PR

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:08:49.736993Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ed795cf456dba3d068e32077f6d9043490e27b9ca58fe7ef28547c94cea577d9

Aliases

arxiv: math/0609353 · arxiv_version: math/0609353v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.math/0609353 · pith_short_12: 5V4VZ5CW3OR5 · pith_short_16: 5V4VZ5CW3OR5A2HD · pith_short_8: 5V4VZ5CW

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/5V4VZ5CW3OR5A2HDEB37NWIEGS \
  | 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: ed795cf456dba3d068e32077f6d9043490e27b9ca58fe7ef28547c94cea577d9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bfeed4e12eb2a17846613cc75a955e71863f7886b3fbdf4b02c66bcad2bd0d4f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2006-09-13T12:44:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "50a394bf315df8a1375d34d01a248ebe0b112aaa41d80b90ac4dcb59157aabb7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "math/0609353",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}