Pith Number

pith:VNPHRG3V

pith:2017:VNPHRG3VSWK4IFJVPD67FNBPWT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Strictly Balancing Matrices in Polynomial Time Using Osborne's Iteration

Arman Yousefi, Rafail Ostrovsky, Yuval Rabani

arxiv:1704.07406 v1 · 2017-04-24 · cs.DS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VNPHRG3VSWK4IFJVPD67FNBPWT}

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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	2026-05-18T00:45:38.193854Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ab5e789b759595c4153578fdf2b42fb4c11a15b970a0a74718378f5737de47e0

Aliases

arxiv: 1704.07406 · arxiv_version: 1704.07406v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1704.07406 · pith_short_12: VNPHRG3VSWK4 · pith_short_16: VNPHRG3VSWK4IFJV · pith_short_8: VNPHRG3V

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VNPHRG3VSWK4IFJVPD67FNBPWT \
  | 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: ab5e789b759595c4153578fdf2b42fb4c11a15b970a0a74718378f5737de47e0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ffedd685821c72820ede458840c03f0bd505fae5c8c7321f3608d02ac52d86eb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2017-04-24T18:37:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8ae2cc33ed02a2b3c44cdb3fde925b82d72947f956f996510cdebcf78d051002"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1704.07406",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}