Pith Number

pith:46BWQ6SW

pith:2014:46BWQ6SWF4BOSCANLTWCNAWGSZ

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Improved Randomized Rounding using Random Walks

Sandeep Sen

arxiv:1408.0488 v2 · 2014-08-03 · cs.DS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{46BWQ6SWF4BOSCANLTWCNAWGSZ}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:45:30.974305Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e783687a562f02e9080d5cec2682c6965305d24d199cb52f9fff02732c41fe46

Aliases

arxiv: 1408.0488 · arxiv_version: 1408.0488v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1408.0488 · pith_short_12: 46BWQ6SWF4BO · pith_short_16: 46BWQ6SWF4BOSCAN · pith_short_8: 46BWQ6SW

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/46BWQ6SWF4BOSCANLTWCNAWGSZ \
  | 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: e783687a562f02e9080d5cec2682c6965305d24d199cb52f9fff02732c41fe46

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3c72ce3e0a0fec3f858acf09cb7e741830c3d22e813c65f36fb1bd55417d9a19",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2014-08-03T12:10:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1992809cd46508d9bedd91a29aef4071a11d9921bf5d0602778d3ed1039953ce"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1408.0488",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}