Pith Number

pith:5MVS746R

pith:2014:5MVS746R7CCZEY6UP5REOJVN3R

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Randomized Rounding for the Largest Simplex Problem

Aleksandar Nikolov

arxiv:1412.0036 v2 · 2014-11-28 · cs.CG · cs.DS · math.FA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5MVS746R7CCZEY6UP5REOJVN3R}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T02:18:58.296421Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

eb2b2ff3d1f8859263d47f624726addc6fd4bf360981003f46314c80b9b8fb5c

Aliases

arxiv: 1412.0036 · arxiv_version: 1412.0036v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1412.0036 · pith_short_12: 5MVS746R7CCZ · pith_short_16: 5MVS746R7CCZEY6U · pith_short_8: 5MVS746R

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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/5MVS746R7CCZEY6UP5REOJVN3R \
  | 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: eb2b2ff3d1f8859263d47f624726addc6fd4bf360981003f46314c80b9b8fb5c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d03620da4e39b2fb7e3f9c9ac79a4cdcd38d44aa59db2a70bf6917be73ecb30d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS",
      "math.FA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CG",
    "submitted_at": "2014-11-28T21:51:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c110949dc9b92850ee5392fa294f002180620c6261a96980875cf2096ada1eb3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1412.0036",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}