Pith Number

pith:BCXOKVYZ

pith:2017:BCXOKVYZYYWWJ5WFGE6KSTDMDB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Barriers for Rank Methods in Arithmetic Complexity

Ankit Garg, Avi Wigderson, Klim Efremenko, Rafael Oliveira

arxiv:1710.09502 v1 · 2017-10-26 · cs.CC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BCXOKVYZYYWWJ5WFGE6KSTDMDB}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T00:31:59.271603Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

08aee55719c62d64f6c5313ca94c6c1867f3ad918020c47fab5a9381d1056dfe

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.09502 · arxiv_version: 1710.09502v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.09502 · pith_short_12: BCXOKVYZYYWW · pith_short_16: BCXOKVYZYYWWJ5WF · pith_short_8: BCXOKVYZ

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/BCXOKVYZYYWWJ5WFGE6KSTDMDB \
  | 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: 08aee55719c62d64f6c5313ca94c6c1867f3ad918020c47fab5a9381d1056dfe

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fad0215e9fcc1bfdea848aabb61c955ee1db7317a320a66fc015b182266f6270",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-26T01:03:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ac6547c9f66d8e963a0a5ce1c9d5a0486e1781c7fb1ce4882361f8892c7d56ef"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.09502",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}