Pith Number

pith:PTQBKZZ2

pith:2017:PTQBKZZ2R3KYTEFHZKNC5HJ66H

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Substochastic Monte Carlo Algorithms

Brad Lackey, Michael Jarret

arxiv:1704.09014 v1 · 2017-04-28 · cs.DS · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PTQBKZZ2R3KYTEFHZKNC5HJ66H}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T00:45:22.942301Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7ce015673a8ed58990a7ca9a2e9d3ef1ee25c33767f5110c3a2edaa119a702cb

Aliases

arxiv: 1704.09014 · arxiv_version: 1704.09014v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1704.09014 · pith_short_12: PTQBKZZ2R3KY · pith_short_16: PTQBKZZ2R3KYTEFH · pith_short_8: PTQBKZZ2

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/PTQBKZZ2R3KYTEFHZKNC5HJ66H \
  | 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: 7ce015673a8ed58990a7ca9a2e9d3ef1ee25c33767f5110c3a2edaa119a702cb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0d5e0a5c645b548f29ed1f9915c331d1a990adfcb730d77e10e782603c371feb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2017-04-28T17:18:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7a9404b5ecd62baebe5843598fcc037e9f236d502e3d99166199a10bd14b4a98"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1704.09014",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}