Pith Number

pith:OLYQM3MC

pith:2017:OLYQM3MCJNT7XEVCXBGZCNNTML

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On the Pervasiveness of Difference-Convexity in Optimization and Statistics

Jong-Shi Pang, Maher Nouiehed, Meisam Razaviyayn

arxiv:1704.03535 v3 · 2017-04-11 · math.OC

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\pithnumber{OLYQM3MCJNT7XEVCXBGZCNNTML}

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:53:44.539430Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

72f1066d824b67fb92a2b84d9135b362dbef6ee4bfe7a1f24c63192b5295ec53

Aliases

arxiv: 1704.03535 · arxiv_version: 1704.03535v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1704.03535 · pith_short_12: OLYQM3MCJNT7 · pith_short_16: OLYQM3MCJNT7XEVC · pith_short_8: OLYQM3MC

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/OLYQM3MCJNT7XEVCXBGZCNNTML \
  | 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: 72f1066d824b67fb92a2b84d9135b362dbef6ee4bfe7a1f24c63192b5295ec53

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-04-11T21:03:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ca937b76cb2e5911c122893b1a62a78ecdb69e7026ed1b93f33e72bb1b02d401"
  },
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