Pith Number

pith:AJQXC6DO

pith:2020:AJQXC6DOLNB6MZPY6HUOJCXPQW

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Restarting Algorithms: Sometimes there is Free Lunch

Sebastian Pokutta

arxiv:2006.14810 v1 · 2020-06-26 · math.OC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AJQXC6DOLNB6MZPY6HUOJCXPQW}

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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	2026-07-05T01:13:47.079636Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

026171786e5b43e665f8f1e8e48aef85ae8b114f11fd0208f1e1100ccdaf9537

Aliases

arxiv: 2006.14810 · arxiv_version: 2006.14810v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2006.14810 · pith_short_12: AJQXC6DOLNB6 · pith_short_16: AJQXC6DOLNB6MZPY · pith_short_8: AJQXC6DO

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/AJQXC6DOLNB6MZPY6HUOJCXPQW \
  | 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: 026171786e5b43e665f8f1e8e48aef85ae8b114f11fd0208f1e1100ccdaf9537

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3a6b109348dd1683512daa4dd2876b1adeead430d515ef95ca29c89a64e4bd80",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2020-06-26T06:02:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1be322d45a844b82f1b1f3929c2050988de88ecd65195142adc8a09cee049951"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2006.14810",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}