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pith:NZENVYRU

pith:2019:NZENVYRUKWDN52IAKW2WMQHUO6

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Distributed Non-convex Optimization of Multi-agent Systems Using Boosting Functions to Escape Local Optima: Theory and Applications

Christos G. Cassandras, Shirantha Welikala

arxiv:1903.04133 v6 · 2019-03-11 · math.OC

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First computed	2026-07-05T01:19:23.771638Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6e48dae2345586dee90055b56640f47780b23d42cffda1bd6a071b4bb3a2ef23

Aliases

arxiv: 1903.04133 · arxiv_version: 1903.04133v6 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1903.04133 · pith_short_12: NZENVYRUKWDN · pith_short_16: NZENVYRUKWDN52IA · pith_short_8: NZENVYRU

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NZENVYRUKWDN52IAKW2WMQHUO6 \
  | 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: 6e48dae2345586dee90055b56640f47780b23d42cffda1bd6a071b4bb3a2ef23

Canonical record JSON

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    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6b1921baf723a902acf8f0037f35bfc723ae563b560c35e32e49bea6e813d110",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2019-03-11T05:40:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6b1fdafd28412790e03dfcf20e5cd828783d9fb54397ec52a827e291cb835ed0"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
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