Pith Number

pith:MJA6PF47

pith:2020:MJA6PF472QTRYP2EJGLYV4B5J4

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A general perspective on the Metropolis-Hastings kernel

Anthony Lee, Christophe Andrieu, Sam Livingstone

arxiv:2012.14881 v1 · 2020-12-29 · stat.CO · stat.ME

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First computed	2026-07-05T02:03:02.265583Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6241e7979fd4271c3f4449978af03d4f1114e88fe09f41d8e6c1dc8fd141154e

Aliases

arxiv: 2012.14881 · arxiv_version: 2012.14881v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2012.14881 · pith_short_12: MJA6PF472QTR · pith_short_16: MJA6PF472QTRYP2E · pith_short_8: MJA6PF47

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MJA6PF472QTRYP2EJGLYV4B5J4 \
  | 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: 6241e7979fd4271c3f4449978af03d4f1114e88fe09f41d8e6c1dc8fd141154e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "87bfdef3ecfc5c807826c24cdd79bdf66d29c613ac786a2df9c2dbe795612125",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ME"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2020-12-29T18:15:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a209ae1c359859810433b6941c891ca5a16309004d12ddec4a2e1e1ea2c13b4a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2012.14881",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}