Pith Number

pith:HVVX6SR5

pith:2021:HVVX6SR54KY3VX5ATDDDTOQ575

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Optimally Reliable & Cheap Payment Flows on the Lightning Network

Rene Pickhardt, Stefan Richter

arxiv:2107.05322 v1 · 2021-07-12 · cs.NI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HVVX6SR54KY3VX5ATDDDTOQ575}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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.

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1 paper in Pith

MPFlow: Learning Budgeted Max-Flow Optimization on the Lightning Network with Deep Graph Reinforcement Learning

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T02:57:01.589071Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3d6b7f4a3de2b1badfa098c639ba1dff464a3c46abb5babfd017d6f726555f52

Aliases

arxiv: 2107.05322 · arxiv_version: 2107.05322v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2107.05322 · pith_short_12: HVVX6SR54KY3 · pith_short_16: HVVX6SR54KY3VX5A · pith_short_8: HVVX6SR5

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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/HVVX6SR54KY3VX5ATDDDTOQ575 \
  | 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: 3d6b7f4a3de2b1badfa098c639ba1dff464a3c46abb5babfd017d6f726555f52

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1f8b670d59505d14f27963a0bc2708b9537498c1e21939c2d07a56f9c83c38ee",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2021-07-12T11:19:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c3abfc3aecb5341261343d169d9a4db31b5c87942950817e4a9851a93e983b2e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2107.05322",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}