Pith Number

pith:VTPRBWWD

pith:2023:VTPRBWWDXFXQMSRY4TPNF2U7RQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Learning to Pivot as a Smart Expert

Dongdong Ge, Shanwen Pu, Tianhao Liu, Yinyu Ye

arxiv:2308.08171 v2 · 2023-08-16 · math.OC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VTPRBWWDXFXQMSRY4TPNF2U7RQ}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-07-05T08:10:16.238849Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

acdf10dac3b96f064a38e4ded2ea9f8c3533f6d66e24e56f92684c6f45610418

Aliases

arxiv: 2308.08171 · arxiv_version: 2308.08171v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2308.08171 · pith_short_12: VTPRBWWDXFXQ · pith_short_16: VTPRBWWDXFXQMSRY · pith_short_8: VTPRBWWD

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/VTPRBWWDXFXQMSRY4TPNF2U7RQ \
  | 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: acdf10dac3b96f064a38e4ded2ea9f8c3533f6d66e24e56f92684c6f45610418

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1a27fac490a63075894f6337c3c0863026290ea0e269c6237d1c807e656429ff",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2023-08-16T07:00:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fac333b57f7057ec186e06fd69c3894281e35d15154eba42f1c63c235cb62f4d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2308.08171",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}