Pith Number

pith:WT2DXZ2K

pith:2018:WT2DXZ2K7OWMZ7VLERLG2WPVKG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Convergence of the Iterates in Mirror Descent Methods

Carolyn L. Beck, D. Hoa Nguyen, Subhonmesh Bose, Thinh T. Doan

arxiv:1805.01526 v1 · 2018-05-03 · math.OC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WT2DXZ2K7OWMZ7VLERLG2WPVKG}

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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	2026-05-18T00:16:49.756116Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b4f43be74afbacccfeab24566d59f551a986f1c27478a84bfd49237f0d36f900

Aliases

arxiv: 1805.01526 · arxiv_version: 1805.01526v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.01526 · pith_short_12: WT2DXZ2K7OWM · pith_short_16: WT2DXZ2K7OWMZ7VL · pith_short_8: WT2DXZ2K

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/WT2DXZ2K7OWMZ7VLERLG2WPVKG \
  | 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: b4f43be74afbacccfeab24566d59f551a986f1c27478a84bfd49237f0d36f900

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c5c1a724bcfb436bd27faea2ee38a2e90927573284e31af1e9316e8bf6b2edf5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-05-03T20:43:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b51c93559a8a974078bfffeab0c5d177985b3665e322dcbf4213b563136853b1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1805.01526",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}