Pith Number

pith:LQJH4MWT

pith:2016:LQJH4MWTIEFVOMPB6PBRI7YIPC

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A Distributed Algorithm for Computing a Common Fixed Point of a Family of Paracontractions

A. Stephen Morse, Daniel Fullmer, Lili Wang

arxiv:1602.01483 v2 · 2016-02-03 · math.OC · cs.MA · cs.SY

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LQJH4MWTIEFVOMPB6PBRI7YIPC}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:13:39.810022Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5c127e32d3410b5731e1f3c3147f0878a29ab3f62bd064b3862feeae42f29fa1

Aliases

arxiv: 1602.01483 · arxiv_version: 1602.01483v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1602.01483 · pith_short_12: LQJH4MWTIEFV · pith_short_16: LQJH4MWTIEFVOMPB · pith_short_8: LQJH4MWT

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/LQJH4MWTIEFVOMPB6PBRI7YIPC \
  | 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: 5c127e32d3410b5731e1f3c3147f0878a29ab3f62bd064b3862feeae42f29fa1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "587be4bb54c946ec2089de11705d992ac88422a1927df61b2190cca18c6e64c0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.MA",
      "cs.SY"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2016-02-03T21:18:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2c6994cadae80c5a5270f505c2a93ee12f436c00030a04e7c9c101afc2285671"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1602.01483",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}