Pith Number

pith:AA3JXAAL

pith:2023:AA3JXAALWZG2FKRYDPE2EDNQYB

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Improved Approximation Bounds for Minimum Weight Cycle in the CONGEST Model

Vignesh Manoharan, Vijaya Ramachandran

arxiv:2308.08670 v3 · 2023-08-16 · cs.DS · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AA3JXAALWZG2FKRYDPE2EDNQYB}

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First computed	2026-07-05T08:21:40.537516Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

00369b800bb64da2aa381bc9a20db0c05c58603f53ea690200ae12ec24e370bf

Aliases

arxiv: 2308.08670 · arxiv_version: 2308.08670v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2308.08670 · pith_short_12: AA3JXAALWZG2 · pith_short_16: AA3JXAALWZG2FKRY · pith_short_8: AA3JXAAL

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/AA3JXAALWZG2FKRYDPE2EDNQYB \
  | 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: 00369b800bb64da2aa381bc9a20db0c05c58603f53ea690200ae12ec24e370bf

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "86e00ae7de4a007ba4a8be13cd65262f59477bdba95d76f1bb2d06de7a2f4fba",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2023-08-16T20:41:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "738b8ad49ba702b401383faac744e3afd2be9cc4b4b4f82a979bb2b1acfeff4a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2308.08670",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}