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pith:2015:7HPAPKMW3O2FMMY4B2GN2NZQ45
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Computable bounds of ${\ell}^2$-spectral gap for discrete Markov chains with band transition matrices

James Ledoux (IRMAR), Lo\"ic Herv\'e (IRMAR)

arxiv:1511.01717 v1 · 2015-11-05 · math.PR

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First computed 2026-05-18T01:27:39.982001Z
Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
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Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f9de07a996dbb456331c0e8cdd3730e740269c1fa409400e001d4cee4a74b1d3

Aliases

arxiv: 1511.01717 · arxiv_version: 1511.01717v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1511.01717 · pith_short_12: 7HPAPKMW3O2F · pith_short_16: 7HPAPKMW3O2FMMY4 · pith_short_8: 7HPAPKMW
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/7HPAPKMW3O2FMMY4B2GN2NZQ45 \
  | 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: f9de07a996dbb456331c0e8cdd3730e740269c1fa409400e001d4cee4a74b1d3
Canonical record JSON
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    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2015-11-05T12:45:02Z",
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