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pith:4TSKLCHW

pith:2016:4TSKLCHWQ5KHXPRU6MNP6QED2J

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Self-reducible with easy decision version counting problems admit additive error approximation. Connections to counting complexity, exponential time complexity, and circuit lower bounds

Eleni Bakali

arxiv:1611.01706 v1 · 2016-11-05 · cs.CC · cs.DS

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\pithnumber{4TSKLCHWQ5KHXPRU6MNP6QED2J}

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Faster Exponential-Time Approximate Counting via Bounded Self-Reductions

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:00:04.654788Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e4e4a588f687547bbe34f31aff4083d24845decec8cb2db88115fa96f289d227

Aliases

arxiv: 1611.01706 · arxiv_version: 1611.01706v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1611.01706 · pith_short_12: 4TSKLCHWQ5KH · pith_short_16: 4TSKLCHWQ5KHXPRU · pith_short_8: 4TSKLCHW

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4TSKLCHWQ5KHXPRU6MNP6QED2J \
  | 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: e4e4a588f687547bbe34f31aff4083d24845decec8cb2db88115fa96f289d227

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "31cc4be8e0174f4df557b4dfc4c7a76ae8b6c647e84c0fbce2d81d08bc669b65",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CC",
    "submitted_at": "2016-11-05T22:55:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "550f5eb61b7cecb056737f7ee7ebd081a64162fe619967f4c335765e339dca6c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1611.01706",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}