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pith:5FWFMXPX

pith:2008:5FWFMXPX5I7YOLXBAZQ2Z3LAAQ
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Simulated Annealing for Optimal Ship Routing

D. S. Vlachos, O. T. Kosmas

arxiv:0811.2162 v2 · 2008-11-13 · physics.comp-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5FWFMXPX5I7YOLXBAZQ2Z3LAAQ}

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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.
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First computed 2026-07-04T15:42:05.399611Z
Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature Pith Ed25519 (pith-v1-2026-05) · public key
Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e96c565df7ea3f872ee10661aced6004230c03f5c1d6c9c0f4fbc33d10c9e20c

Aliases

arxiv: 0811.2162 · arxiv_version: 0811.2162v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0811.2162 · pith_short_12: 5FWFMXPX5I7Y · pith_short_16: 5FWFMXPX5I7YOLXB · pith_short_8: 5FWFMXPX
Agent API
Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/5FWFMXPX5I7YOLXBAZQ2Z3LAAQ \
  | 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: e96c565df7ea3f872ee10661aced6004230c03f5c1d6c9c0f4fbc33d10c9e20c
Canonical record JSON
{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7339782b225ca46bec309a3290f2ec4908133a5bf83b5a10edbe1cf05335d99c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.comp-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2008-11-13T16:15:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0d2af16b8f20d36f6964f233a3f1f3095e4a7b9bfc4fcc60b2e398042443178d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0811.2162",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}