Pith Number

pith:7VUPEENT

pith:2026:7VUPEENTUOZ46HO5IZJCBJ65TH

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A categorical account of the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm

Andi Q. Wang, Rob Cornish

arxiv:2601.22911 v2 · 2026-01-30 · stat.CO · math.CT · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7VUPEENTUOZ46HO5IZJCBJ65TH}

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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	2026-07-14T01:20:52.463713Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fd68f211b3a3b3cf1ddd465220a7dd99ecaed876731042ec98cb6fe88731b9e0

Aliases

arxiv: 2601.22911 · arxiv_version: 2601.22911v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2601.22911 · pith_short_12: 7VUPEENTUOZ4 · pith_short_16: 7VUPEENTUOZ46HO5 · pith_short_8: 7VUPEENT

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/7VUPEENTUOZ46HO5IZJCBJ65TH \
  | 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: fd68f211b3a3b3cf1ddd465220a7dd99ecaed876731042ec98cb6fe88731b9e0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "eb1e780ba9a7a8725ac7cfc7b95d6f578e7f39e22055b878f4f16524e505b203",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.CT",
      "math.PR"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2026-01-30T12:34:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f14a466444090710d50da04329f76c1abe629c6e0e0bf6964fa6ee8b44b70e01"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2601.22911",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}