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pith:UZK7YUNS

pith:2015:UZK7YUNSZKD3MUBIIQ57VEL274

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Convergence Time of Quantized Metropolis Consensus Over Time-Varying Networks

Alex Olshevsky, Seyed Rasoul Etesami, Tamer Basar

arxiv:1504.01438 v2 · 2015-04-06 · cs.SY · cs.DC · cs.MA · math.OC · math.PR

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:21:23.654987Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a655fc51b2ca87b65028443bfa917aff3d893a7fee7043f4bf04201272a0d9c4

Aliases

arxiv: 1504.01438 · arxiv_version: 1504.01438v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1504.01438 · pith_short_12: UZK7YUNSZKD3 · pith_short_16: UZK7YUNSZKD3MUBI · pith_short_8: UZK7YUNS

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/UZK7YUNSZKD3MUBIIQ57VEL274 \
  | 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: a655fc51b2ca87b65028443bfa917aff3d893a7fee7043f4bf04201272a0d9c4

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "89d890f93abcc0470e2ce53c301d73ed0855ac3278f902a053530f81186ddb45",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC",
      "cs.MA",
      "math.OC",
      "math.PR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SY",
    "submitted_at": "2015-04-06T23:28:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "28a960abc0bf9bc30beb92fec32799152a63598448013984987a463fd362f789"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}