Pith Number

pith:PTGBTD67

pith:2015:PTGBTD67PARFPZFQ4BYLQYGFNO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Canonical Paths for MCMC: from Art to Science

Chihao Zhang, Lingxiao Huang, Pinyan Lu

arxiv:1510.04099 v1 · 2015-10-14 · cs.DS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PTGBTD67PARFPZFQ4BYLQYGFNO}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T01:30:09.229798Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7ccc198fdf782257e4b0e070b860c56bb0661aab66df5856d79972d97dfbd63c

Aliases

arxiv: 1510.04099 · arxiv_version: 1510.04099v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1510.04099 · pith_short_12: PTGBTD67PARF · pith_short_16: PTGBTD67PARFPZFQ · pith_short_8: PTGBTD67

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/PTGBTD67PARFPZFQ4BYLQYGFNO \
  | 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: 7ccc198fdf782257e4b0e070b860c56bb0661aab66df5856d79972d97dfbd63c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6395fca34740d8faa02b40df0f27c035a82b3b64ce788dd590c59e715fdf810e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2015-10-14T14:01:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fc7ffd957c20d0d527df791b7de3532b4b4ad9339e9c283d1634c72e71fc7561"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1510.04099",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}