Pith Number

pith:MVO6VOQE

pith:2017:MVO6VOQEHZ6EWRWJNJLLEDX2UF

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A single potential governing convergence of conjugate gradient, accelerated gradient and geometric descent

Sahar Karimi, Stephen Vavasis

arxiv:1712.09498 v2 · 2017-12-27 · math.OC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MVO6VOQEHZ6EWRWJNJLLEDX2UF}

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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	2026-05-17T23:56:38.864195Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

655deaba043e7c4b46c96a56b20efaa16321ccda3c5087c5408ff4bb04d7be69

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.09498 · arxiv_version: 1712.09498v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.09498 · pith_short_12: MVO6VOQEHZ6E · pith_short_16: MVO6VOQEHZ6EWRWJ · pith_short_8: MVO6VOQE

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MVO6VOQEHZ6EWRWJNJLLEDX2UF \
  | 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: 655deaba043e7c4b46c96a56b20efaa16321ccda3c5087c5408ff4bb04d7be69

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "152756ba790e2e6e9716fbf55b750ad5eb1f3488de5f0b2c0c78f62b1abbade2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-27T05:26:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b8507a7c49b08c0e1025028ffa5d02bd523e0965da528f9038f3b8ffb81178fa"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.09498",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}