Pith Number

pith:4TPUE4DB

pith:2026:4TPUE4DBL6XQISXOPU7Z47AOD6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Deterministic Distance Approximation in MPC via Improved Hitting Sets

Kyungjin Cho, Michal Dory, Tijn de Vos, Yannic Maus

arxiv:2606.03674 v1 · 2026-06-02 · cs.DS · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4TPUE4DBL6XQISXOPU7Z47AOD6}

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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	2026-06-03T01:06:04.192170Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e4df4270615faf044aee7d3f9e7c0e1f978232db9aa07ce97831b80e5340e266

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.03674 · arxiv_version: 2606.03674v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.03674 · pith_short_12: 4TPUE4DBL6XQ · pith_short_16: 4TPUE4DBL6XQISXO · pith_short_8: 4TPUE4DB

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4TPUE4DBL6XQISXOPU7Z47AOD6 \
  | 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: e4df4270615faf044aee7d3f9e7c0e1f978232db9aa07ce97831b80e5340e266

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "16e3a351e306df41b138e48f985958e0e1758c439bdae9e543c34967ed0bcae3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-02T13:59:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "25b9e5272966f55f45a497a3989bb1c08491b00008389fbe8185748f19817995"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.03674",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}