Pith Number

pith:YUNDSOE6

pith:2018:YUNDSOE67M46AVATJ5YTGUEF45

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A dual ascent algorithm for asynchronous distributed optimization with unreliable directed communications

C.H. Jeffrey Pang

arxiv:1809.09516 v2 · 2018-09-25 · math.OC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YUNDSOE67M46AVATJ5YTGUEF45}

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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	2026-05-17T23:53:02.709216Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c51a39389efb39e054134f71335085e75a83c00d760c93d6911820a16515b64b

Aliases

arxiv: 1809.09516 · arxiv_version: 1809.09516v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1809.09516 · pith_short_12: YUNDSOE67M46 · pith_short_16: YUNDSOE67M46AVAT · pith_short_8: YUNDSOE6

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/YUNDSOE67M46AVATJ5YTGUEF45 \
  | 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: c51a39389efb39e054134f71335085e75a83c00d760c93d6911820a16515b64b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a0a5e4e87c7e5d125268a0992a14479b84eb590d71c2b8712f83eb17b6f2d0b3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-09-25T14:29:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "96f3c3fa9e0eac0d178ab7aa4ce3376d0e6eb13850ac6bd58b1844f4eea0a98c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1809.09516",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}