Pith Number

pith:W3JVMZ3Z

pith:2015:W3JVMZ3Z5WRNLE3LDYJISK7LDG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Locally weighted Markov chain Monte Carlo

Espen Bernton, Jun S. Liu, Neil Shephard, Shihao Yang, Yang Chen

arxiv:1506.08852 v1 · 2015-06-29 · stat.CO

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{W3JVMZ3Z5WRNLE3LDYJISK7LDG}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T01:37:34.287816Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b6d3566779eda2d5936b1e12892beb19bf7a9af5f534643b436a6389931e7c42

Aliases

arxiv: 1506.08852 · arxiv_version: 1506.08852v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1506.08852 · pith_short_12: W3JVMZ3Z5WRN · pith_short_16: W3JVMZ3Z5WRNLE3L · pith_short_8: W3JVMZ3Z

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/W3JVMZ3Z5WRNLE3LDYJISK7LDG \
  | 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: b6d3566779eda2d5936b1e12892beb19bf7a9af5f534643b436a6389931e7c42

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a31c105aa1a620c415057a51ca23ae4ee6901ef2ad7d5f287e3577aa8c709a4c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2015-06-29T20:28:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6b9924255a32ef4c483bb6fb80ff4787d35cfc685acc859cb7a70f5b90b009df"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1506.08852",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}