Pith Number

pith:VLPSTQB3

pith:2016:VLPSTQB3EZ4HYPTLFBKRNJC3XQ

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Achieving Geometric Convergence for Distributed Optimization over Time-Varying Graphs

Alex Olshevsky, Angelia Nedich, Wei Shi

arxiv:1607.03218 v3 · 2016-07-12 · math.OC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VLPSTQB3EZ4HYPTLFBKRNJC3XQ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:48:28.165269Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aadf29c03b26787c3e6b285516a45bbc2b8c7f4a97e8b20f6e3c38d6adc29752

Aliases

arxiv: 1607.03218 · arxiv_version: 1607.03218v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1607.03218 · pith_short_12: VLPSTQB3EZ4H · pith_short_16: VLPSTQB3EZ4HYPTL · pith_short_8: VLPSTQB3

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/VLPSTQB3EZ4HYPTLFBKRNJC3XQ \
  | 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: aadf29c03b26787c3e6b285516a45bbc2b8c7f4a97e8b20f6e3c38d6adc29752

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c981c39cec4d1fde5379004a640f86d57165098123b3cd0494755b6c26f0afd2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2016-07-12T02:41:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3fb8161f6ca0a31560d0fc212304bb2fa008ceaa5cb37e35359c8787b089ff53"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1607.03218",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}