Pith Number

pith:7ZBHW5DZ

pith:2015:7ZBHW5DZ2MSADCOK6XMHFCNZSS

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Marathon: An open source software library for the analysis of Markov-Chain Monte Carlo algorithms

Annabell Berger, Steffen Rechner

arxiv:1508.04740 v2 · 2015-08-19 · cs.DM · cs.MS

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\pithnumber{7ZBHW5DZ2MSADCOK6XMHFCNZSS}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:04:41.670695Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fe427b7479d3240189caf5d87289b994a160e05b11e48a32bd0d9ec75bee0d56

Aliases

arxiv: 1508.04740 · arxiv_version: 1508.04740v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1508.04740 · pith_short_12: 7ZBHW5DZ2MSA · pith_short_16: 7ZBHW5DZ2MSADCOK · pith_short_8: 7ZBHW5DZ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/7ZBHW5DZ2MSADCOK6XMHFCNZSS \
  | 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: fe427b7479d3240189caf5d87289b994a160e05b11e48a32bd0d9ec75bee0d56

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "715fa09131316b73fe97dc96ea254765dbed8ed8828b966451fd5ee7aaba3ec4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.MS"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DM",
    "submitted_at": "2015-08-19T18:55:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e834c07c08c178c1839790cfed6751ef097b476068f1e61dfe7850f591b9ff94"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1508.04740",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}