Pith Number

pith:ZE7ED6GU

pith:2012:ZE7ED6GUGAAGJWQCSVOFUU2MH2

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Approximation algorithms for the normalizing constant of Gibbs distributions

Mark Huber

arxiv:1206.2689 v2 · 2012-06-12 · math.PR · stat.CO

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\pithnumber{ZE7ED6GUGAAGJWQCSVOFUU2MH2}

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:21:52.081973Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c93e41f8d4300064da02955c5a534c3ea1e22ee9b4c26e6f0f2eddb82b0da353

Aliases

arxiv: 1206.2689 · arxiv_version: 1206.2689v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1206.2689 · pith_short_12: ZE7ED6GUGAAG · pith_short_16: ZE7ED6GUGAAGJWQC · pith_short_8: ZE7ED6GU

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ZE7ED6GUGAAGJWQCSVOFUU2MH2 \
  | 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: c93e41f8d4300064da02955c5a534c3ea1e22ee9b4c26e6f0f2eddb82b0da353

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "612147308b461afc2cfb8f4d61e10cf2a64056a62e948447bf4d49b1eff3dfa2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2012-06-12T23:49:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7ebd39366e8948ceacddc5faf657f9722826c71cf04ba87ed33ce615675f3fc6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1206.2689",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}