Pith Number

pith:UPR7KR7Y

pith:2013:UPR7KR7YR4LCICAGCI7PSNAROL

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Some things we've learned (about Markov chain Monte Carlo)

Persi Diaconis

arxiv:1309.7754 v1 · 2013-09-30 · math.ST · math.PR · stat.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UPR7KR7YR4LCICAGCI7PSNAROL}

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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	2026-05-18T03:11:48.374819Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a3e3f547f88f16240806123ef9341172e9ff42b4e43320f6e3f0a2b81f577fde

Aliases

arxiv: 1309.7754 · arxiv_version: 1309.7754v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1309.7754 · pith_short_12: UPR7KR7YR4LC · pith_short_16: UPR7KR7YR4LCICAG · pith_short_8: UPR7KR7Y

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/UPR7KR7YR4LCICAGCI7PSNAROL \
  | 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: a3e3f547f88f16240806123ef9341172e9ff42b4e43320f6e3f0a2b81f577fde

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "04b6c9d3696ffe02375287dd9093bf736347dce4acbf79a568cd4804c3ca92c9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.PR",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2013-09-30T08:44:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "910abd90471d9eb0c8a99dc81180ec6fc8aa04040d5a874396d9f7c29da28584"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1309.7754",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}