Pith Number

pith:BPBJQCPH

pith:2015:BPBJQCPH73WQVFGLPQZY67DTOW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Alternating Minimization, Proximal Minimization and Optimization Transfer Are Equivalent

Charles L. Byrne, Jong Soo Lee

arxiv:1512.03034 v1 · 2015-12-09 · math.NA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BPBJQCPH73WQVFGLPQZY67DTOW}

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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	2026-05-18T01:24:39.002118Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0bc29809e7feed0a94cb7c338f7c737590c7f48bf44d96ad4dba219218088d52

Aliases

arxiv: 1512.03034 · arxiv_version: 1512.03034v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1512.03034 · pith_short_12: BPBJQCPH73WQ · pith_short_16: BPBJQCPH73WQVFGL · pith_short_8: BPBJQCPH

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/BPBJQCPH73WQVFGLPQZY67DTOW \
  | 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: 0bc29809e7feed0a94cb7c338f7c737590c7f48bf44d96ad4dba219218088d52

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "88f75c6caae8993654d167dba1893f6793d9fbc4da334bc72c0904c90bb4b739",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.NA",
    "submitted_at": "2015-12-09T20:37:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cb22a4ed473f962c1adf45ae53c7be4cb27976b1ea79cb1549b30b043fa3f465"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1512.03034",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}