Pith Number

pith:CQVDN4KX

pith:2014:CQVDN4KXAIWWPTESBZUCRH7JLG

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Perfect sampling for nonhomogeneous Markov chains and hidden Markov models

Anthony Lee, Nick Whiteley

arxiv:1410.4462 v2 · 2014-10-16 · math.ST · stat.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CQVDN4KXAIWWPTESBZUCRH7JLG}

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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	2026-05-18T01:23:19.095003Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

142a36f157022d67cc920e68289fe959a084f421a92f9ffed9773359bfbc5222

Aliases

arxiv: 1410.4462 · arxiv_version: 1410.4462v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1410.4462 · pith_short_12: CQVDN4KXAIWW · pith_short_16: CQVDN4KXAIWWPTES · pith_short_8: CQVDN4KX

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/CQVDN4KXAIWWPTESBZUCRH7JLG \
  | 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: 142a36f157022d67cc920e68289fe959a084f421a92f9ffed9773359bfbc5222

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "88832825caed0023406b3d8ac52490d1549f1ac374e4625f0e0797705033bf68",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2014-10-16T15:13:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f3ad8be94d23418ccf9675689360ef0cecc0e915a6710e8823dab5bb489221f3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1410.4462",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}