Pith Number

pith:JYRLPOKH

pith:2010:JYRLPOKHFFG77BIXKFCPEZWQAD

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Belief Propagation for Min-cost Network Flow: Convergence and Correctness

David Gamarnik, Devavrat Shah, Yehua Wei

arxiv:1004.1586 v4 · 2010-04-09 · cs.DM · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JYRLPOKHFFG77BIXKFCPEZWQAD}

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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	2026-05-18T01:19:22.599550Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4e22b7b947294dff85175144f266d000fd66558567dfbd0bf116fde0b23b0455

Aliases

arxiv: 1004.1586 · arxiv_version: 1004.1586v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1004.1586 · pith_short_12: JYRLPOKHFFG7 · pith_short_16: JYRLPOKHFFG77BIX · pith_short_8: JYRLPOKH

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/JYRLPOKHFFG77BIXKFCPEZWQAD \
  | 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: 4e22b7b947294dff85175144f266d000fd66558567dfbd0bf116fde0b23b0455

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e3967e64aebade28a89d6847b1cf919501086d5c1bcd17f61b34d99496f02d04",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DM",
    "submitted_at": "2010-04-09T16:15:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f13be3cf6ffa872f50a9ed75bdaed3ad38f2271bc7b078f70f596cc5c1396d34"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1004.1586",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}