Pith Number

pith:C5D7ZRJN

pith:2014:C5D7ZRJN6JLE2GAZXOJ7HW2VHC

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A global optimization paradigm based on change of measures

Debasish Roy, Saikat Sarkar

arxiv:1404.6865 v2 · 2014-04-28 · stat.ME

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{C5D7ZRJN6JLE2GAZXOJ7HW2VHC}

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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	2026-05-18T02:38:26.414652Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1747fcc52df2564d1819bb93f3db55388ae87b889d1b8346111484f104396a4a

Aliases

arxiv: 1404.6865 · arxiv_version: 1404.6865v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1404.6865 · pith_short_12: C5D7ZRJN6JLE · pith_short_16: C5D7ZRJN6JLE2GAZ · pith_short_8: C5D7ZRJN

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/C5D7ZRJN6JLE2GAZXOJ7HW2VHC \
  | 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: 1747fcc52df2564d1819bb93f3db55388ae87b889d1b8346111484f104396a4a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3ef7b255539ea864f24e6458c5307de504a6730b7fa99d3e0ea3d106bfa4fe6a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2014-04-28T04:56:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "faddc876da45cecedb85e27ee968fde9e78d217852158e584e4cce36ceea73ef"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1404.6865",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}