Pith Number

pith:7X4U5PYI

pith:2020:7X4U5PYIEC67GWFBMWACZL3LB6

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Distributed Bayesian: a continuous Distributed Constraint Optimization Problem solver

Bart De Schutter, Erik Theunissen, Henry Dol, Jeroen Fransman, Joris Sijs

arxiv:2002.03252 v1 · 2020-02-08 · math.OC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7X4U5PYIEC67GWFBMWACZL3LB6}

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4 Citations 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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T00:39:20.642694Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fdf94ebf0820bdf358a165802caf6b0f944395b61ec2c9890429306411650956

Aliases

arxiv: 2002.03252 · arxiv_version: 2002.03252v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2002.03252 · pith_short_12: 7X4U5PYIEC67 · pith_short_16: 7X4U5PYIEC67GWFB · pith_short_8: 7X4U5PYI

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/7X4U5PYIEC67GWFBMWACZL3LB6 \
  | 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: fdf94ebf0820bdf358a165802caf6b0f944395b61ec2c9890429306411650956

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d72eea2d42807b7a4c4bac3c41d71b548c9ddb9bf94f76feee9b9ae60b42bea8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2020-02-08T23:59:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e638319605a2afd7930a0e94fc3edb1e9a6c20b366ac7e011e43b8d750896bc5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2002.03252",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}