Pith Number

pith:5XSEF2YM

pith:2006:5XSEF2YMMVEJOEJASDKZLOUXBA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

From Incomplete Preferences to Ranking via Optimization

Elena Shamis, Pavel Chebotarev

arxiv:math/0602552 v1 · 2006-02-24 · math.OC · cs.MA · math.CO

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5XSEF2YMMVEJOEJASDKZLOUXBA}

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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	2026-07-04T14:53:26.297526Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ede442eb0c654897112090d595ba9708160397fcfe3d3e7962cea0e50829bdff

Aliases

arxiv: math/0602552 · arxiv_version: math/0602552v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.math/0602552 · pith_short_12: 5XSEF2YMMVEJ · pith_short_16: 5XSEF2YMMVEJOEJA · pith_short_8: 5XSEF2YM

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/5XSEF2YMMVEJOEJASDKZLOUXBA \
  | 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: ede442eb0c654897112090d595ba9708160397fcfe3d3e7962cea0e50829bdff

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "78704591f382f769dea4193af0cc67d51889d64ea1f3dca0e5863cd741f8593a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.MA",
      "math.CO"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2006-02-24T16:09:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "36668858321bc53041904e59fe3527876a37c1b4e8dc98276c837f883f8885c7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "math/0602552",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}