Pith Number

pith:3U74FXU3

pith:2023:3U74FXU3WGKKYTGFYL5BBL3353

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Faster Deterministic Distributed MIS and Approximate Matching

Christoph Grunau, Mohsen Ghaffari

arxiv:2303.16043 v1 · 2023-03-28 · cs.DS · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3U74FXU3WGKKYTGFYL5BBL3353}

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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	2026-07-05T05:55:31.135038Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dd3fc2de9bb194ac4cc5c2fa10af7beee0433db7ffd6e5c629df7c107ccfc70f

Aliases

arxiv: 2303.16043 · arxiv_version: 2303.16043v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2303.16043 · pith_short_12: 3U74FXU3WGKK · pith_short_16: 3U74FXU3WGKKYTGF · pith_short_8: 3U74FXU3

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/3U74FXU3WGKKYTGFYL5BBL3353 \
  | 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: dd3fc2de9bb194ac4cc5c2fa10af7beee0433db7ffd6e5c629df7c107ccfc70f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bbf2cc3f9a1d6c348f2fe3fa9e59fb8ea458f7cee289399d2f8c9572ed20203d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2023-03-28T15:18:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "acad2b9158236fd7889f8618b0d83606d4f1455ebeadfe09519fdae82d606a3a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2303.16043",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}