Pith Number

pith:7IZB4TPE

pith:2012:7IZB4TPEQDDDUV7UHGDKBQ4RL5

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Better Balance by Being Biased: A 0.8776-Approximation for Max Bisection

Konstantinos Georgiou, Per Austrin, Siavosh Benabbas

arxiv:1205.0458 v2 · 2012-05-02 · cs.DS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7IZB4TPEQDDDUV7UHGDKBQ4RL5}

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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	2026-05-18T03:51:37.914955Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fa321e4de480c63a57f43986a0c3915f78a2f4716bc4407a1b21a3a135602309

Aliases

arxiv: 1205.0458 · arxiv_version: 1205.0458v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1205.0458 · pith_short_12: 7IZB4TPEQDDD · pith_short_16: 7IZB4TPEQDDDUV7U · pith_short_8: 7IZB4TPE

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/7IZB4TPEQDDDUV7UHGDKBQ4RL5 \
  | 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: fa321e4de480c63a57f43986a0c3915f78a2f4716bc4407a1b21a3a135602309

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "08b0279bec9a9203e752daffcb4096ea074864919505299409ea347a51f20446",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2012-05-02T15:19:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ba8295fcdfa7e8186f39a7f13dcefd9189535cba76125d2a82d657532ee40505"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1205.0458",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}