Pith Number

pith:73IFZW47

pith:2015:73IFZW4776NTB5KJ4ZSRPHVZSP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Distributed Selection in $O ( \log n )$ Time with $O ( n \log \log n )$ Messages

Junichiro Fukuyama, Piotr Berman

arxiv:1511.00715 v4 · 2015-11-02 · cs.DS

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{73IFZW4776NTB5KJ4ZSRPHVZSP}

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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	2026-05-18T00:28:19.134036Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fed05cdb9fff9b30f549e665179eb993c79c9ff9e0d3352d9b48c89f7614f0cf

Aliases

arxiv: 1511.00715 · arxiv_version: 1511.00715v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1511.00715 · pith_short_12: 73IFZW4776NT · pith_short_16: 73IFZW4776NTB5KJ · pith_short_8: 73IFZW47

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/73IFZW4776NTB5KJ4ZSRPHVZSP \
  | 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: fed05cdb9fff9b30f549e665179eb993c79c9ff9e0d3352d9b48c89f7614f0cf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5b4f7d561b8a214d82eb177dfc516376b303aee1ac627eeba740bd43917e9f03",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2015-11-02T21:30:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "475f33dd51ac7ccc5a3db179684528c850b7c9202c1621a243a0aedc023f5ecf"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1511.00715",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}