Pith Number

pith:YEYV77DS

pith:2011:YEYV77DSDN4SZ3KNG5HKTAOY7B

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Local degeneracy of Markov chain Monte Carlo methods

Kengo Kamatani

arxiv:1108.2477 v2 · 2011-08-06 · stat.ME · math.ST · stat.TH

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\pithnumber{YEYV77DSDN4SZ3KNG5HKTAOY7B}

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:49:20.670579Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c1315ffc721b792ced4d374ea981d8f8538ab0a26733006265de7f46546fc020

Aliases

arxiv: 1108.2477 · arxiv_version: 1108.2477v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1108.2477 · pith_short_12: YEYV77DSDN4S · pith_short_16: YEYV77DSDN4SZ3KN · pith_short_8: YEYV77DS

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/YEYV77DSDN4SZ3KNG5HKTAOY7B \
  | 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: c1315ffc721b792ced4d374ea981d8f8538ab0a26733006265de7f46546fc020

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "02e4276e6ce4a6766036472732b7f0a376b00e4f98c53e94ce57afa742dc6b96",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.ST",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2011-08-06T06:10:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "55dec29af8ba4a8962914e3df34dd3163ae801468caf705d0087c601dde9f443"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1108.2477",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}