Pith Number

pith:7LWP3L2O

pith:2017:7LWP3L2OHJSDJFZED5QTVLKVTO

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Improved Convergence Rates for Distributed Resource Allocation

Alex Olshevsky, Angelia Nedi\'c, Wei Shi

arxiv:1706.05441 v2 · 2017-06-16 · math.OC · cs.DC · cs.MA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7LWP3L2OHJSDJFZED5QTVLKVTO}

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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	2026-05-17T23:58:14.952045Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

faecfdaf4e3a643497241f613aad559bbad167c9116cb06a8c671fa73b4af5f9

Aliases

arxiv: 1706.05441 · arxiv_version: 1706.05441v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1706.05441 · pith_short_12: 7LWP3L2OHJSD · pith_short_16: 7LWP3L2OHJSDJFZE · pith_short_8: 7LWP3L2O

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/7LWP3L2OHJSDJFZED5QTVLKVTO \
  | 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: faecfdaf4e3a643497241f613aad559bbad167c9116cb06a8c671fa73b4af5f9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b5753c19337aab3525add3bdab8052b12e3cd18272d761102da5c6890150624d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC",
      "cs.MA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-06-16T22:07:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "dccd6cfb9b6d02963fae45431838d114a6680b6055ba5d9ec5f9e89c6714b0d4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1706.05441",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}