Pith Number

pith:SWEDC6GZ

pith:2009:SWEDC6GZX7ZKSEVDXLWC3HO3ZN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Minimizing the time to a decision

Jon Warren, Peter Windridge, Saul Jacka

arxiv:0911.5413 v3 · 2009-11-28 · math.PR · math.OC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SWEDC6GZX7ZKSEVDXLWC3HO3ZN}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T04:05:46.106455Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

95883178d9bff2a912a3baec2d9ddbcb65b46ce8d662e3a3fbc77e20091e93b4

Aliases

arxiv: 0911.5413 · arxiv_version: 0911.5413v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0911.5413 · pith_short_12: SWEDC6GZX7ZK · pith_short_16: SWEDC6GZX7ZKSEVD · pith_short_8: SWEDC6GZ

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/SWEDC6GZX7ZKSEVDXLWC3HO3ZN \
  | 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: 95883178d9bff2a912a3baec2d9ddbcb65b46ce8d662e3a3fbc77e20091e93b4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "151bab40282ac663fd522378d680abc347824cc8c5d65573e31c66656c4e5bf1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.OC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2009-11-28T18:29:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1989917bd7524bd1df783da3182d840b2ffd9eb4c7f59386d4c88da3754c09ab"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0911.5413",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}