Pith Number

pith:B44JUT3V

pith:2011:B44JUT3V36KWM777ESL5NFJOSJ

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A Polylogarithmic-Competitive Algorithm for the k-Server Problem

Aleksander Madry, Joseph (Seffi) Naor, Nikhil Bansal, Niv Buchbinder

arxiv:1110.1580 v1 · 2011-10-07 · cs.DS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{B44JUT3V36KWM777ESL5NFJOSJ}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T04:11:29.693421Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0f389a4f75df95667fff2497d6952e924a27050a9535b5b9009e04f93cf4b9fe

Aliases

arxiv: 1110.1580 · arxiv_version: 1110.1580v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1110.1580 · pith_short_12: B44JUT3V36KW · pith_short_16: B44JUT3V36KWM777 · pith_short_8: B44JUT3V

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/B44JUT3V36KWM777ESL5NFJOSJ \
  | 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: 0f389a4f75df95667fff2497d6952e924a27050a9535b5b9009e04f93cf4b9fe

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2279dfb7e38f631f54227b52fdb84948149052f492d6fa4abdb34c9e30a48fc5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2011-10-07T16:39:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a3ee138e1e1acee84f7fc3571a6a87a97e906612adc4448a98e373a86dd55ceb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1110.1580",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}