Pith Number

pith:XSCPAGZ2

pith:2012:XSCPAGZ2FIZNM5IK7H4UDACNJV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Optimisation via Slice Sampling

John R. Birge, Nicholas G. Polson

arxiv:1212.2135 v1 · 2012-12-10 · math.OC · stat.CO

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XSCPAGZ2FIZNM5IK7H4UDACNJV}

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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	2026-05-18T03:38:46.967380Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bc84f01b3a2a32d6750af9f941804d4d782dee8c3f561e86aa8a293a7d6b89cd

Aliases

arxiv: 1212.2135 · arxiv_version: 1212.2135v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1212.2135 · pith_short_12: XSCPAGZ2FIZN · pith_short_16: XSCPAGZ2FIZNM5IK · pith_short_8: XSCPAGZ2

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/XSCPAGZ2FIZNM5IK7H4UDACNJV \
  | 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: bc84f01b3a2a32d6750af9f941804d4d782dee8c3f561e86aa8a293a7d6b89cd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "92c3ff9133dd93b8a8dcde25adabbceddb4f611ce6d39e58ea0d653e3e23945a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2012-12-10T17:07:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8a0891d16d60de76dbb18638709aa67f4cf52641365fde776f22c8de9b2c4bdc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1212.2135",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}