Pith Number

pith:BDY4HOJD

pith:2011:BDY4HOJDT5O6BCWHQ6AEAGLUJ4

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The generalized work function algorithm is competitive for the generalized 2-server problem

Rene Sitters

arxiv:1110.6600 v2 · 2011-10-30 · cs.DS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BDY4HOJDT5O6BCWHQ6AEAGLUJ4}

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First computed	2026-05-18T03:06:05.113790Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

08f1c3b9239f5de08ac787804019744f3f6e31eb9ec24a04cd4163230305454e

Aliases

arxiv: 1110.6600 · arxiv_version: 1110.6600v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1110.6600 · pith_short_12: BDY4HOJDT5O6 · pith_short_16: BDY4HOJDT5O6BCWH · pith_short_8: BDY4HOJD

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BDY4HOJDT5O6BCWHQ6AEAGLUJ4 \
  | 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: 08f1c3b9239f5de08ac787804019744f3f6e31eb9ec24a04cd4163230305454e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b175d604139e32239b75a97386a70cd77b223e151249b9af3c25854ce283bdfd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2011-10-30T11:04:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0fa1fb749e8c1ba30257a86f3ca28e35abaa852a4add036487e6116c7aaccd9c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1110.6600",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}