Pith Number

pith:T4DGVI7W

pith:2016:T4DGVI7WDIKRWF5CNUWWLUS5LG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Ensemble preconditioning for Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation

Benedict Leimkuhler, Charles Matthews, Jonathan Weare

arxiv:1607.03954 v1 · 2016-07-13 · stat.ME · math.NA · stat.CO · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{T4DGVI7WDIKRWF5CNUWWLUS5LG}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:11:04.452824Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9f066aa3f61a151b17a26d2d65d25d598a43ae3abdf94a667ca14a7eb334bae9

Aliases

arxiv: 1607.03954 · arxiv_version: 1607.03954v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1607.03954 · pith_short_12: T4DGVI7WDIKR · pith_short_16: T4DGVI7WDIKRWF5C · pith_short_8: T4DGVI7W

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/T4DGVI7WDIKRWF5CNUWWLUS5LG \
  | 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: 9f066aa3f61a151b17a26d2d65d25d598a43ae3abdf94a667ca14a7eb334bae9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3a1ce4acb2c37f72ca6fd507fa945978669b7b71af494a268139ec302461f6d3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.NA",
      "stat.CO",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2016-07-13T23:12:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "34677e4138944afc8f9091d29f5765e364832352d34a9a9df7aeae62f966d91e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1607.03954",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}