Pith Number

pith:Y4AUTGI5

pith:2010:Y4AUTGI55QKHH2ARZDRK3TKWCG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Cruising The Simplex: Hamiltonian Monte Carlo and the Dirichlet Distribution

M. J. Betancourt

arxiv:1010.3436 v4 · 2010-10-17 · physics.data-an

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Y4AUTGI55QKHH2ARZDRK3TKWCG}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T02:26:03.006898Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c70149991dec1473e811c8e2adcd561193c850959a18f9d2797276107be6f9f9

Aliases

arxiv: 1010.3436 · arxiv_version: 1010.3436v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1010.3436 · pith_short_12: Y4AUTGI55QKH · pith_short_16: Y4AUTGI55QKHH2AR · pith_short_8: Y4AUTGI5

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/Y4AUTGI55QKHH2ARZDRK3TKWCG \
  | 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: c70149991dec1473e811c8e2adcd561193c850959a18f9d2797276107be6f9f9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ed82db46850fbe17c0c5e852e4873d606360a197a7bb9442bc4486e71befc20c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.data-an",
    "submitted_at": "2010-10-17T19:04:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "be20fd04f837ff7806f3f47e19ccd1093d2cd783ac8654c5f8892799105ba24d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1010.3436",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}