Pith Number

pith:KD57MIDN

pith:2026:KD57MIDN4LFBMGLBSNT7MDWPZR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Chained Markov melding using divide and conquer sequential Monte Carlo

Robert J. B. Goudie, Yixuan Liu

arxiv:2605.22301 v1 · 2026-05-21 · stat.ME

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KD57MIDN4LFBMGLBSNT7MDWPZR}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-22T01:04:36.871696Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

50fbf6206de2ca1619619367f60ecfcc69eb4fe9b54520e0232e2f6a9d7d63f8

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.22301 · arxiv_version: 2605.22301v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.22301 · pith_short_12: KD57MIDN4LFB · pith_short_16: KD57MIDN4LFBMGLB · pith_short_8: KD57MIDN

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/KD57MIDN4LFBMGLBSNT7MDWPZR \
  | 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: 50fbf6206de2ca1619619367f60ecfcc69eb4fe9b54520e0232e2f6a9d7d63f8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ee05da8d2440894d8f1172713c864e834174785e06a166c48d5261605a98e196",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-21T10:47:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6ee7d5ba0bac9120cac0d376a910a0d621b02e84a9098966816f19c43ea81ffe"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.22301",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}