Pith Number

pith:YNHWOGLB

pith:2015:YNHWOGLB4Q6DGPT26BT4ZY77BT

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A note on one of the Markov chain Monte Carlo novice's questions

Christophe Andrieu

arxiv:1504.03467 v1 · 2015-04-14 · stat.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YNHWOGLB4Q6DGPT26BT4ZY77BT}

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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	2026-05-18T02:18:50.848894Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c34f671961e43c333e7af067cce3ff0ce3ca136afbc58649d88aaf6b4c433531

Aliases

arxiv: 1504.03467 · arxiv_version: 1504.03467v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1504.03467 · pith_short_12: YNHWOGLB4Q6D · pith_short_16: YNHWOGLB4Q6DGPT2 · pith_short_8: YNHWOGLB

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/YNHWOGLB4Q6DGPT26BT4ZY77BT \
  | 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: c34f671961e43c333e7af067cce3ff0ce3ca136afbc58649d88aaf6b4c433531

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f339ce344a6bd6565f0070d9ebbb012420d910797cf53d79fb94a55596355ae9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2015-04-14T09:20:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "006fdb7016307314945a3cf3cff6fc82f6d792da97c85166d2427a74e5111150"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1504.03467",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}