Pith Number

pith:SXT3L6HQ

pith:2012:SXT3L6HQ2RBQVEIU74N7I2SX6F

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Making Markov chains less lazy

Catherine Greenhill

arxiv:1203.6668 v3 · 2012-03-29 · math.CO · cs.DM

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SXT3L6HQ2RBQVEIU74N7I2SX6F}

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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	2026-05-18T03:36:04.615928Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

95e7b5f8f0d4430a9114ff1bf46a57f1524726ee322f9924fdb1fd46130b1d56

Aliases

arxiv: 1203.6668 · arxiv_version: 1203.6668v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1203.6668 · pith_short_12: SXT3L6HQ2RBQ · pith_short_16: SXT3L6HQ2RBQVEIU · pith_short_8: SXT3L6HQ

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/SXT3L6HQ2RBQVEIU74N7I2SX6F \
  | 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: 95e7b5f8f0d4430a9114ff1bf46a57f1524726ee322f9924fdb1fd46130b1d56

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2cbb2deff207baa476d69dc4f8deb7e3d02b497617096eb0dee38024704a685e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DM"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2012-03-29T20:59:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ef754d2a3391a1905ac109b78dd9a4ffe32a622a120c3b5f3f0656068e3a8c71"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1203.6668",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}