Pith Number

pith:4M33ANSC

pith:2017:4M33ANSCOEMDTDGSOXC2R7EXGB

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Effective algorithms for homogeneous utility functions

Alexander Shananin, Sergey Tarasov

arxiv:1801.00777 v1 · 2017-12-29 · cs.DS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4M33ANSCOEMDTDGSOXC2R7EXGB}

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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	2026-05-18T00:26:48.783474Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e337b036427118398cd275c5a8fc973066ab5f9bc3f4b74583ffccfc44b9618c

Aliases

arxiv: 1801.00777 · arxiv_version: 1801.00777v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1801.00777 · pith_short_12: 4M33ANSCOEMD · pith_short_16: 4M33ANSCOEMDTDGS · pith_short_8: 4M33ANSC

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4M33ANSCOEMDTDGSOXC2R7EXGB \
  | 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: e337b036427118398cd275c5a8fc973066ab5f9bc3f4b74583ffccfc44b9618c

Canonical record JSON

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    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8da097e8a17bf836149836c278f58fbfe94019c9867d36bdaa743e6794c37d7a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-29T21:53:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "03f293e8e25d256af0024519e6170464c5e497aeee94a143abd1a99d347723ff"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1801.00777",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}