Pith Number

pith:3PUY3NP6

pith:2012:3PUY3NP6KLSU3VAIZ2VO3CLEG3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Join-graph based cost-shifting schemes

Alexander T. Ihler, Lars Otten, Natalia Flerova, Rina Dechter

arxiv:1210.4878 v1 · 2012-10-16 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3PUY3NP6KLSU3VAIZ2VO3CLEG3}

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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	2026-05-18T03:42:55.237031Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dbe98db5fe52e54dd408ceaaed896436ff573415611cb58f0bcd166bea83688c

Aliases

arxiv: 1210.4878 · arxiv_version: 1210.4878v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1210.4878 · pith_short_12: 3PUY3NP6KLSU · pith_short_16: 3PUY3NP6KLSU3VAI · pith_short_8: 3PUY3NP6

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/3PUY3NP6KLSU3VAIZ2VO3CLEG3 \
  | 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: dbe98db5fe52e54dd408ceaaed896436ff573415611cb58f0bcd166bea83688c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9427b72674ac703638e25b029af2ba4dff7f9ca2ec622d2e6c782eaa47d7d48a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2012-10-16T17:43:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "31941f059aed4a73c6f426dc8984a7ee18b3e17397b3c6b2df1d3c3fe58d6f41"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1210.4878",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}