Pith Number

pith:LBGVAMQT

pith:2010:LBGVAMQT5MTYTZJ7M2WQQ5LKJP

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MM Algorithms for Minimizing Nonsmoothly Penalized Objective Functions

Elizabeth D. Schifano, Martin T. Wells, Robert L. Strawderman

arxiv:1001.4776 v2 · 2010-01-26 · stat.CO · math.ST · stat.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LBGVAMQT5MTYTZJ7M2WQQ5LKJP}

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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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First computed	2026-05-18T04:31:13.168687Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

584d503213eb2789e53f66ad08756a4bef4c86f728b1773b9bbdbc941fbc1319

Aliases

arxiv: 1001.4776 · arxiv_version: 1001.4776v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1001.4776 · pith_short_12: LBGVAMQT5MTY · pith_short_16: LBGVAMQT5MTYTZJ7 · pith_short_8: LBGVAMQT

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LBGVAMQT5MTYTZJ7M2WQQ5LKJP \
  | 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: 584d503213eb2789e53f66ad08756a4bef4c86f728b1773b9bbdbc941fbc1319

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c98b86914389a1fd86b9169699d2c140ca6ff6fb759cd22e99010ea9621014c7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.ST",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2010-01-26T20:47:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "57e35159e8cfaaf357444565d85da47e75b1845a738b3c7b28a4f4626676d09f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1001.4776",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}