Pith Number

pith:ILXLF2UE

pith:2016:ILXLF2UEJ3AJGUHJ4VWD7DTHDF

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Minimizing Sum of Truncated Convex Functions and Its Applications

Hui Jiang, Tzu-Ying Liu

arxiv:1608.00236 v3 · 2016-07-31 · stat.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ILXLF2UEJ3AJGUHJ4VWD7DTHDF}

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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	2026-05-18T00:41:41.469415Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

42eeb2ea844ec09350e9e56c3f8e6719430e069a49bad25beccbda68379e2de6

Aliases

arxiv: 1608.00236 · arxiv_version: 1608.00236v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1608.00236 · pith_short_12: ILXLF2UEJ3AJ · pith_short_16: ILXLF2UEJ3AJGUHJ · pith_short_8: ILXLF2UE

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/ILXLF2UEJ3AJGUHJ4VWD7DTHDF \
  | 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: 42eeb2ea844ec09350e9e56c3f8e6719430e069a49bad25beccbda68379e2de6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5f78bc38563aae55413d9eca7e7edc09f0bc86ef1e442b607251bc33820dc271",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2016-07-31T16:14:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "34bdb53f29f08d4c1d711b3b10adb6145ad5b6a833a3d6182675e9c940250e01"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1608.00236",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}