Pith Number

pith:V7FWK5XE

pith:2017:V7FWK5XE72D6QNZNZYWTJC2SID

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Calculating how long it takes for a diffusion process to effectively reach steady state without computing the transient solution

Elliot J. Carr

arxiv:1704.06652 v2 · 2017-04-21 · math.NA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{V7FWK5XE72D6QNZNZYWTJC2SID}

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-18T00:40:03.973642Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

afcb6576e4fe87e8372dce2d348b5240fe27b574979f8bc0f803d7ae8559f848

Aliases

arxiv: 1704.06652 · arxiv_version: 1704.06652v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1704.06652 · pith_short_12: V7FWK5XE72D6 · pith_short_16: V7FWK5XE72D6QNZN · pith_short_8: V7FWK5XE

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/V7FWK5XE72D6QNZNZYWTJC2SID \
  | 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: afcb6576e4fe87e8372dce2d348b5240fe27b574979f8bc0f803d7ae8559f848

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f3dd9993acbab124abe90058d641e01d61c08f82290a5ce4171d223aeadd4c5d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.NA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-04-21T04:39:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b98d61f6c3da58e2f55d164f155cde880d67ba55b5d8b2a2a586d619c99c202d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1704.06652",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}