Pith Number

pith:G42IC5YG

pith:2012:G42IC5YGIT3YOKIZD3CL3JMA2P

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On optimal direction gibbs sampling

Colin Fox, Diego Andr\'es P\'erez-Ruiz, J. Andr\'es Christen, Mario Santana-Cibrian

arxiv:1205.4062 v1 · 2012-05-18 · stat.CO · math.NA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{G42IC5YGIT3YOKIZD3CL3JMA2P}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T03:55:22.823343Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

373481770644f78729191ec4bda580d3d1e24eccf9192b20becbe47fc0eb8697

Aliases

arxiv: 1205.4062 · arxiv_version: 1205.4062v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1205.4062 · pith_short_12: G42IC5YGIT3Y · pith_short_16: G42IC5YGIT3YOKIZ · pith_short_8: G42IC5YG

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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/G42IC5YGIT3YOKIZD3CL3JMA2P \
  | 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: 373481770644f78729191ec4bda580d3d1e24eccf9192b20becbe47fc0eb8697

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5c34e5fb1a59cf0d050ac8ec38fe941a458523450c09e2770ecf76b63ad25c90",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.NA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2012-05-18T00:12:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "907c52c5048b3879ace5b8d0baa62b50a9e5587676340ef311ffa3bfa4829260"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1205.4062",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}