Pith Number

pith:HQ5OFYF4

pith:2019:HQ5OFYF4FENGXNZ2SN2X52CTZW

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Markov Chain Monte Carlo on Finite State Spaces

Tobias Siems

arxiv:1903.09019 v5 · 2019-03-20 · math.ST · stat.TH

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HQ5OFYF4FENGXNZ2SN2X52CTZW}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-17T23:39:24.596190Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3c3ae2e0bc291a6bb73a93757ee853cd9adb26958ebfbbda95473a10342f7d4e

Aliases

arxiv: 1903.09019 · arxiv_version: 1903.09019v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1903.09019 · pith_short_12: HQ5OFYF4FENG · pith_short_16: HQ5OFYF4FENGXNZ2 · pith_short_8: HQ5OFYF4

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/HQ5OFYF4FENGXNZ2SN2X52CTZW \
  | 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: 3c3ae2e0bc291a6bb73a93757ee853cd9adb26958ebfbbda95473a10342f7d4e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "561bf806c88b541400143e68e0ddf8ac7e96e3abe6742feb1dfb29d28252e602",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2019-03-20T17:01:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e6f00a493fc97c8119614f0d7f4c911bdb602b4e19199fcb22032c8a80e16941"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1903.09019",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}