Pith Number

pith:ZTIEGAHT

pith:2016:ZTIEGAHTIZ2BULDR4ZDJISRXKL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the Powerball Method for Optimization

Claire J. Tomlin, Jun Liu, Mu Li, Ye Yuan

arxiv:1603.07421 v4 · 2016-03-24 · eess.SY · cs.LG · cs.SY · math.OC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZTIEGAHTIZ2BULDR4ZDJISRXKL}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-06-04T17:10:07.718685Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ccd04300f346741a2c71e646944a3752f4ba39e266e9f122f7a19d90e4f7bf04

Aliases

arxiv: 1603.07421 · arxiv_version: 1603.07421v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1603.07421 · pith_short_12: ZTIEGAHTIZ2B · pith_short_16: ZTIEGAHTIZ2BULDR · pith_short_8: ZTIEGAHT

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/ZTIEGAHTIZ2BULDR4ZDJISRXKL \
  | 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: ccd04300f346741a2c71e646944a3752f4ba39e266e9f122f7a19d90e4f7bf04

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3a348e1db930df41e3a34b5fb3d4d5f9b0a4fc575d840028098384bff1c0fbbb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "cs.SY",
      "math.OC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "eess.SY",
    "submitted_at": "2016-03-24T03:13:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c8936f542c2b7f151e45bc6ec5ea451d51a51b6eac275256b7c56213d3031001"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1603.07421",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}