Pith Number

pith:LSO2WAGF

pith:1993:LSO2WAGFOPJRQE3IXB433DW2CP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A General Limitation on Monte Carlo Algorithms of Metropolis Type

Alan D. Sokal, Andrea Pelissetto, Sergio Caracciolo

arxiv:hep-lat/9307021 v1 · 1993-07-28 · hep-lat

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LSO2WAGFOPJRQE3IXB433DW2CP}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T04:36:19.242808Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5c9dab00c573d3181368b879bd8eda13eb1a96373c284aec2189fc62c3635086

Aliases

arxiv: hep-lat/9307021 · arxiv_version: hep-lat/9307021v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-lat/9307021 · pith_short_12: LSO2WAGFOPJR · pith_short_16: LSO2WAGFOPJRQE3I · pith_short_8: LSO2WAGF

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/LSO2WAGFOPJRQE3IXB433DW2CP \
  | 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: 5c9dab00c573d3181368b879bd8eda13eb1a96373c284aec2189fc62c3635086

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b4a685ecdd5741c6f0773811546c0d6232026917c34d7a59b988b330ebd1da03",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-lat",
    "submitted_at": "1993-07-28T23:37:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e9e396997054c68f0a160fad8ca99148d7bccba98d6cc1f1f39ac22be4f01128"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-lat/9307021",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}