Pith Number

pith:YXTLFJ4D

pith:2016:YXTLFJ4DW6Z6NQKB3MU2TGLSKE

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Importance sampling of heavy-tailed iterated random functions

Bert Zwart, Bohan Chen, Chang-han Rhee

arxiv:1609.03182 v1 · 2016-09-11 · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YXTLFJ4DW6Z6NQKB3MU2TGLSKE}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:04:47.604684Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c5e6b2a783b7b3e6c141db29a9997251360f6a7bf5c1a35267886505b09b0b75

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.03182 · arxiv_version: 1609.03182v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.03182 · pith_short_12: YXTLFJ4DW6Z6 · pith_short_16: YXTLFJ4DW6Z6NQKB · pith_short_8: YXTLFJ4D

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/YXTLFJ4DW6Z6NQKB3MU2TGLSKE \
  | 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: c5e6b2a783b7b3e6c141db29a9997251360f6a7bf5c1a35267886505b09b0b75

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e616e4a2557149c4446b55bcf4f837f075e027fa1a92f9efecbe8a4033765968",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-11T16:53:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0972ae0fded9cb28f37128abbf2b83fa20c3c06eb84ab6d60893d81ab30bcc6e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.03182",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}