Pith Number

pith:C7SFVP2I

pith:2011:C7SFVP2IYBPW25UOFGR4CNHCPR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Framework for Optimization under Limited Information

Tansu Alpcan

arxiv:1105.2176 v1 · 2011-05-11 · math.OC · cs.IT · cs.LG · cs.SY · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{C7SFVP2IYBPW25UOFGR4CNHCPR}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T04:08:45.145524Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

17e45abf48c05f6d768e29a3c134e27c526b49ec194a05ec866a52bbdd0e1598

Aliases

arxiv: 1105.2176 · arxiv_version: 1105.2176v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1105.2176 · pith_short_12: C7SFVP2IYBPW · pith_short_16: C7SFVP2IYBPW25UO · pith_short_8: C7SFVP2I

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/C7SFVP2IYBPW25UOFGR4CNHCPR \
  | 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: 17e45abf48c05f6d768e29a3c134e27c526b49ec194a05ec866a52bbdd0e1598

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bcd8fea44185821b0787c756d5a49014e8ab17c08bb95d9f6cf069deb593a7d5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "cs.LG",
      "cs.SY",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2011-05-11T13:03:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a3aba3167f47c47f2dc551b69a7d336c5baf29269ada0056599f3042721dd530"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1105.2176",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}