Pith Number

pith:I6IJWWXQ

pith:2017:I6IJWWXQCUA5TRYKT2NBW6G6QY

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A Conservation Law Method in Optimization

Bin Shi

arxiv:1708.08035 v3 · 2017-08-27 · math.OC · cs.AI · cs.NA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{I6IJWWXQCUA5TRYKT2NBW6G6QY}

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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	2026-05-18T00:32:54.914491Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

47909b5af01501d9c70a9e9a1b78de860fe9ba663d1a3c8634b528ac83a9d757

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.08035 · arxiv_version: 1708.08035v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.08035 · pith_short_12: I6IJWWXQCUA5 · pith_short_16: I6IJWWXQCUA5TRYK · pith_short_8: I6IJWWXQ

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/I6IJWWXQCUA5TRYKT2NBW6G6QY \
  | 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: 47909b5af01501d9c70a9e9a1b78de860fe9ba663d1a3c8634b528ac83a9d757

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f065fa0692e33fa9674b1913cccf38c43858c072c1f3cad1c5d2c40a05384634",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.NA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-27T01:55:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9034b48f9035769cd92cc15119334dec7a63f42cbb4f1368f84ffbe4f736c666"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.08035",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}