Pith Number

pith:ZHLVRE7T

pith:2016:ZHLVRE7TQPTCCV3NNULSWUXRF4

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Fast Simulation of Hyperplane-Truncated Multivariate Normal Distributions

Bo Chen, Mingyuan Zhou, Yulai Cong

arxiv:1607.04751 v2 · 2016-07-16 · stat.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZHLVRE7TQPTCCV3NNULSWUXRF4}

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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	2026-05-18T00:50:31.020490Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c9d75893f383e621576d6d172b52f12f0ba832bd141b354479550bb42420afd5

Aliases

arxiv: 1607.04751 · arxiv_version: 1607.04751v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1607.04751 · pith_short_12: ZHLVRE7TQPTC · pith_short_16: ZHLVRE7TQPTCCV3N · pith_short_8: ZHLVRE7T

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/ZHLVRE7TQPTCCV3NNULSWUXRF4 \
  | 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: c9d75893f383e621576d6d172b52f12f0ba832bd141b354479550bb42420afd5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d91d24f7bf26d7f579c7ad00c0257d4fc8f6c2643014fb4a2ec81512afb74e66",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2016-07-16T15:36:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bde53311f164d33f181f1ea1659749d6cbbbcccfd0074f7a0d6e72dd6e6b225f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1607.04751",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}