Pith Number

pith:4SQ4BBNO

pith:2025:4SQ4BBNOBEOHFRELVSW7EFWBT3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

From Local Updates to Global Balance: A Framework for Distributed Matrix Scaling

Giacomo Aletti, Giovanni Naldi

arxiv:2506.08035 v1 · 2025-06-03 · math.OC · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4SQ4BBNOBEOHFRELVSW7EFWBT3}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-07-05T11:19:08.841112Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e4a1c085ae091c72c48bacadf216c19ed8896c18f52ff8f583ecd143b38b2127

Aliases

arxiv: 2506.08035 · arxiv_version: 2506.08035v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.08035 · pith_short_12: 4SQ4BBNOBEOH · pith_short_16: 4SQ4BBNOBEOHFREL · pith_short_8: 4SQ4BBNO

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/4SQ4BBNOBEOHFRELVSW7EFWBT3 \
  | 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: e4a1c085ae091c72c48bacadf216c19ed8896c18f52ff8f583ecd143b38b2127

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "df230178d32aacd00bba7d2c7cf4eb90fd06466eda103ef7854a248e284d0350",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2025-06-03T12:54:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "295557cf75e0e0568e179fecb2b2d220304371290a21fe6ff1a75845511b61a5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2506.08035",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}