Pith Number

pith:AK3IJYMO

pith:2014:AK3IJYMOMHMLS53TWTQ6535AV7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Long and winding central paths

Michael Joswig, Pascal Benchimol, St\'ephane Gaubert, Xavier Allamigeon

arxiv:1405.4161 v3 · 2014-05-16 · math.OC · math.CO

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AK3IJYMOMHMLS53TWTQ6535AV7}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T00:38:23.759733Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

02b684e18e61d8b97773b4e1eeefa0afe3b06071d57f8470242af8afaf3e2cd2

Aliases

arxiv: 1405.4161 · arxiv_version: 1405.4161v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1405.4161 · pith_short_12: AK3IJYMOMHML · pith_short_16: AK3IJYMOMHMLS53T · pith_short_8: AK3IJYMO

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/AK3IJYMOMHMLS53TWTQ6535AV7 \
  | 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: 02b684e18e61d8b97773b4e1eeefa0afe3b06071d57f8470242af8afaf3e2cd2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7fc1da84d741f61167eda1fdcd2a68a7c806cb85aae1c0bbd13c782456c9f611",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2014-05-16T13:33:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "46781bd2dec233c8a306ef038f1a842983f3bf26f5c5564eac852696f99dbe03"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1405.4161",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}