Pith Number

pith:5VFSBVQX

pith:2018:5VFSBVQXLOJY7OLRUSL2KAY4VS

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Approximating power by weights

Sascha Kurz

arxiv:1802.00497 v3 · 2018-02-01 · cs.GT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5VFSBVQXLOJY7OLRUSL2KAY4VS}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T00:08:36.084004Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ed4b20d6175b938fb971a497a5031cac99eb39f6b91255ced203a8d7c7700676

Aliases

arxiv: 1802.00497 · arxiv_version: 1802.00497v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1802.00497 · pith_short_12: 5VFSBVQXLOJY · pith_short_16: 5VFSBVQXLOJY7OLR · pith_short_8: 5VFSBVQX

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/5VFSBVQXLOJY7OLRUSL2KAY4VS \
  | 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: ed4b20d6175b938fb971a497a5031cac99eb39f6b91255ced203a8d7c7700676

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9f90851f446eab2f78e7a84ba7c528867119671ee5c58785c975ef62bbdc1770",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2018-02-01T21:34:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a2b14d776040e34638bee2bfa4a928bcc76795a5b81901081370bb6f1153bb5b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1802.00497",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}