Pith Number

pith:3E3JDCMM

pith:2019:3E3JDCMMV7E3ZEMYZSNUYU7PTC

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No Switching Policy is Optimal for a Positive Linear System with a Bottleneck Entrance

Eduardo D. Sontag, Mahdiar Sadeghi, M. Ali Al-Radhawi, Michael Margaliot

arxiv:1905.08872 v1 · 2019-05-21 · math.OC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3E3JDCMMV7E3ZEMYZSNUYU7PTC}

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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	2026-05-17T23:45:25.010495Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d93691898cafc9bc9198cc9b4c53ef98ac73587e504f098ea63c5806000ce888

Aliases

arxiv: 1905.08872 · arxiv_version: 1905.08872v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1905.08872 · pith_short_12: 3E3JDCMMV7E3 · pith_short_16: 3E3JDCMMV7E3ZEMY · pith_short_8: 3E3JDCMM

Agent API

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/3E3JDCMMV7E3ZEMYZSNUYU7PTC \
  | 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: d93691898cafc9bc9198cc9b4c53ef98ac73587e504f098ea63c5806000ce888

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7d86f289e1e75e209f3d470ec0d3c71a3ad5f7b00bc6a891c91ef5d61471b4d5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2019-05-21T21:06:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7f3e888bf6713258e5e99e6cd49efa1f7d0eb11101e465dec9eecdd83d96999f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1905.08872",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}