Pith Number

pith:VTK4OLMH

pith:2015:VTK4OLMHVLYM2S6MM6XOJ4S2BK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Markov Interacting Importance Samplers

Eduardo F. Mendes, Marcel Scharth, Robert Kohn

arxiv:1502.07039 v2 · 2015-02-25 · stat.CO

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VTK4OLMHVLYM2S6MM6XOJ4S2BK}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T01:38:53.840705Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

acd5c72d87aaf0cd4bcc67aee4f25a0a8b31952e747001783d0fbc90b8bda26a

Aliases

arxiv: 1502.07039 · arxiv_version: 1502.07039v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1502.07039 · pith_short_12: VTK4OLMHVLYM · pith_short_16: VTK4OLMHVLYM2S6M · pith_short_8: VTK4OLMH

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/VTK4OLMHVLYM2S6MM6XOJ4S2BK \
  | 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: acd5c72d87aaf0cd4bcc67aee4f25a0a8b31952e747001783d0fbc90b8bda26a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6196d8f6b48bedce927c3c40bd996f2335639a4fac990a77fd1ae4a6205e82cf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2015-02-25T03:48:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9554f80c17f2de1ec0c1aaa7c3e154ea39c7fec72d32771abed3ffcac3c64cba"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1502.07039",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}