Pith Number

pith:DA2XV3BB

pith:2017:DA2XV3BBG2ZKV7MDIYPNTMZ4RQ

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Comparing the Switch and Curveball Markov Chains for Sampling Binary Matrices with Fixed Marginals

Corrie Jacobien Carstens, Pieter Kleer

arxiv:1709.07290 v3 · 2017-09-21 · cs.DM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DA2XV3BBG2ZKV7MDIYPNTMZ4RQ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:32:32.375560Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

18357aec2136b2aafd83461ed9b33c8c2d90ed7869eb7db50460a80bef08ddf9

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.07290 · arxiv_version: 1709.07290v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.07290 · pith_short_12: DA2XV3BBG2ZK · pith_short_16: DA2XV3BBG2ZKV7MD · pith_short_8: DA2XV3BB

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/DA2XV3BBG2ZKV7MDIYPNTMZ4RQ \
  | 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: 18357aec2136b2aafd83461ed9b33c8c2d90ed7869eb7db50460a80bef08ddf9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c298b5bdb5ed53cad7728c6acb2bf4bf665c036204df4dd059b7eaeaa5b7e4ca",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DM",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-21T12:56:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6582c7ebc75b3b8f7e4c19e3bb528c9f16463ec37eeedfc2d8be59a9dced61df"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.07290",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}