Pith Number

pith:4VUV6RZF

pith:2013:4VUV6RZF6TLWGHDM6RV2VFWNXD

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Distributed and Parallel Algorithms for Set Cover Problems with Small Neighborhood Covers

Anamitra R. Choudhury, Archita Agarwal, Sambuddha Roy, Venkatesan T. Chakaravarthy, Yogish Sabharwal

arxiv:1312.7217 v1 · 2013-12-27 · cs.DS · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4VUV6RZF6TLWGHDM6RV2VFWNXD}

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First computed	2026-05-18T03:03:45.442880Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e5695f4725f4d7631c6cf46baa96cdb8decd94af0adb71188f2ac12a6fa94155

Aliases

arxiv: 1312.7217 · arxiv_version: 1312.7217v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1312.7217 · pith_short_12: 4VUV6RZF6TLW · pith_short_16: 4VUV6RZF6TLWGHDM · pith_short_8: 4VUV6RZF

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4VUV6RZF6TLWGHDM6RV2VFWNXD \
  | 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: e5695f4725f4d7631c6cf46baa96cdb8decd94af0adb71188f2ac12a6fa94155

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b8ad3eb458ec63d7647252c440bb491a0603035c073bb3e82f011b3c7eee38b7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2013-12-27T09:03:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5f529c2a50990e961526ed0f36ea548032017a74ce18fd9728ddf5bd6067bd35"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1312.7217",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}