Pith Number

pith:G3OKAG23

pith:2019:G3OKAG23XJ7ZV7SEU3M5R7LKA2

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Analytic-geometric methods for finite Markov chains with applications to quasi-stationarity

Kelsey Houston-Edwards, Laurent Saloff-Coste, Persi Diaconis

arxiv:1906.04877 v1 · 2019-06-12 · math.PR

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:43:30.276581Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

36dca01b5bba7f9afe44a6d9d8fd6a06b463179612ad014b8efa8e30540490bd

Aliases

arxiv: 1906.04877 · arxiv_version: 1906.04877v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1906.04877 · pith_short_12: G3OKAG23XJ7Z · pith_short_16: G3OKAG23XJ7ZV7SE · pith_short_8: G3OKAG23

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/G3OKAG23XJ7ZV7SEU3M5R7LKA2 \
  | 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: 36dca01b5bba7f9afe44a6d9d8fd6a06b463179612ad014b8efa8e30540490bd

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2019-06-12T01:33:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "356275e648fedd2b836bf03b6fe1e5e28480ec2711cb8361552f2ac277d6efc0"
  },
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  "source": {
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  }
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