Pith Number

pith:ZD27QPSQ

pith:2022:ZD27QPSQCU4QWL7L7JC4WO7WK4

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Does a Program Yield the Right Distribution? Verifying Probabilistic Programs via Generating Functions

Joost-Pieter Katoen, Lutz Klinkenberg, Mingshuai Chen, Tobias Winkler

arxiv:2205.01449 v2 · 2022-05-03 · cs.LO · cs.SC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZD27QPSQCU4QWL7L7JC4WO7WK4}

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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	2026-07-05T04:32:59.203720Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c8f5f83e5015390b2febfa45cb3bf657331cdabdf0a92539b0fe8a0b4306697b

Aliases

arxiv: 2205.01449 · arxiv_version: 2205.01449v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2205.01449 · pith_short_12: ZD27QPSQCU4Q · pith_short_16: ZD27QPSQCU4QWL7L · pith_short_8: ZD27QPSQ

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/ZD27QPSQCU4QWL7L7JC4WO7WK4 \
  | 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: c8f5f83e5015390b2febfa45cb3bf657331cdabdf0a92539b0fe8a0b4306697b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b942f0bd19af3b457705149ff286928ff9f1941f044a215bbf5643fe4e075c1b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SC"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LO",
    "submitted_at": "2022-05-03T12:21:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a4e15454474b66e47041918ed9ced6991627434d12436200d1b19efc05466642"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2205.01449",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}