Pith Number

pith:A7LCLVHO

pith:2018:A7LCLVHOR3QLQDLBPPVXCA7BTK

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Metric Sublinear Algorithms via Linear Sampling

Hossein Esfandiari, Michael Mitzenmacher

arxiv:1807.09302 v1 · 2018-07-24 · cs.DS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{A7LCLVHOR3QLQDLBPPVXCA7BTK}

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-18T00:09:51.717049Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

07d625d4ee8ee0b80d617beb7103e19a8b768292898f44e0c4c5a5495d9da081

Aliases

arxiv: 1807.09302 · arxiv_version: 1807.09302v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1807.09302 · pith_short_12: A7LCLVHOR3QL · pith_short_16: A7LCLVHOR3QLQDLB · pith_short_8: A7LCLVHO

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/A7LCLVHOR3QLQDLBPPVXCA7BTK \
  | 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: 07d625d4ee8ee0b80d617beb7103e19a8b768292898f44e0c4c5a5495d9da081

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8dd68fc43d83786518b7fdcb27e597a2c0374a388336a9a1d9a8ddc9c56ecde5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2018-07-24T18:41:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fdba4cca8360f8288ce9901b3e8e545b4fe72a3a9f17ac714ca272f7f5806844"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1807.09302",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}