Pith Number

pith:MN4VGCXC

pith:2017:MN4VGCXCZLLEXXFX5VEGZJG3YO

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Simple perfect samplers using monotone birth-and-death processes

Hiroyuki Masuyama

arxiv:1702.05720 v2 · 2017-02-19 · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MN4VGCXCZLLEXXFX5VEGZJG3YO}

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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	2026-05-18T00:47:56.430741Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6379530ae2cad64bdcb7ed486ca4dbc3b09420d7da9f922ffd85b9bd3563dd7f

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.05720 · arxiv_version: 1702.05720v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.05720 · pith_short_12: MN4VGCXCZLLE · pith_short_16: MN4VGCXCZLLEXXFX · pith_short_8: MN4VGCXC

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/MN4VGCXCZLLEXXFX5VEGZJG3YO \
  | 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: 6379530ae2cad64bdcb7ed486ca4dbc3b09420d7da9f922ffd85b9bd3563dd7f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "39cf9b79a95e646c633435b72421d6d709d4e5efd98c8b88d2382dec678e2df6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-19T08:35:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "33934f4e05293e907e33f115ebc9aeb3485ee28237941eeac2f6b1a6b3423dc2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.05720",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}