Pith Number

pith:VT7YG55F

pith:2015:VT7YG55FKN3MPWY63BPV4PVVMH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Mixing Time of the Dikin Walk in a Polytope - A Simple Proof

Nisheeth K. Vishnoi, Sushant Sachdeva

arxiv:1508.01977 v2 · 2015-08-09 · cs.DS · math.OC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VT7YG55FKN3MPWY63BPV4PVVMH}

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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	2026-05-18T01:09:36.535831Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

acff8377a55376c7db1ed85f5e3eb561ddeca0a53106113ec7260d7a5fb0905b

Aliases

arxiv: 1508.01977 · arxiv_version: 1508.01977v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1508.01977 · pith_short_12: VT7YG55FKN3M · pith_short_16: VT7YG55FKN3MPWY6 · pith_short_8: VT7YG55F

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/VT7YG55FKN3MPWY63BPV4PVVMH \
  | 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: acff8377a55376c7db1ed85f5e3eb561ddeca0a53106113ec7260d7a5fb0905b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b057715c20a6d4220dd0e32d493d0d9bc6461f15b468eb4d92e31a8c1eaa9f23",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.OC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2015-08-09T02:55:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ebd2bff9f16fefc185d5fcaceae08b0d1bde7f0277eca21a6fe0737c4011ff58"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1508.01977",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}