Pith Number

pith:6EFDAR5F

pith:2017:6EFDAR5FV4HG5GX56AE7P6GF5L

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the Hybrid Minimum Principle

Ali Pakniyat, Peter E. Caines

arxiv:1710.05521 v2 · 2017-10-16 · math.OC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6EFDAR5FV4HG5GX56AE7P6GF5L}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T00:15:37.221132Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f10a3047a5af0e6e9afdf009f7f8c5eac6f6eeae718f2ae6e33f5cf672f7f969

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.05521 · arxiv_version: 1710.05521v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.05521 · pith_short_12: 6EFDAR5FV4HG · pith_short_16: 6EFDAR5FV4HG5GX5 · pith_short_8: 6EFDAR5F

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/6EFDAR5FV4HG5GX56AE7P6GF5L \
  | 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: f10a3047a5af0e6e9afdf009f7f8c5eac6f6eeae718f2ae6e33f5cf672f7f969

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a6d8dd857eea0b53ea01320051dd475e0c6278b1d19931236f7f3870c0c91bf1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-16T05:55:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a0547cb7540d54a374ab09efe028553f00baa32ab675645e99bccb249993ee51"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.05521",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}