Pith Number

pith:LEH5ZFGR

pith:2017:LEH5ZFGRPLRNFYXIBLWLFQRPBE

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Distributed Convergence Verification for Gaussian Belief Propagation

Jian Du, Jos\'e M. F. Moura, Soummya Kar

arxiv:1711.09888 v1 · 2017-11-26 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LEH5ZFGRPLRNFYXIBLWLFQRPBE}

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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	2026-05-18T00:29:23.883832Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

590fdc94d17ae2d2e2e80aecb2c22f090105f98708a3717c6f886185fa8f5198

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.09888 · arxiv_version: 1711.09888v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.09888 · pith_short_12: LEH5ZFGRPLRN · pith_short_16: LEH5ZFGRPLRNFYXI · pith_short_8: LEH5ZFGR

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/LEH5ZFGRPLRNFYXIBLWLFQRPBE \
  | 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: 590fdc94d17ae2d2e2e80aecb2c22f090105f98708a3717c6f886185fa8f5198

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7d680cb54302d7bb830c3dbb44f364bcc96b1cb1333ef4ae7dd68938bac8a0ce",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-26T03:44:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c55bc22b49186c64640ada5c242cece1f3a2b9ea8c12bafb4c222afebbdc5e6a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.09888",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}