Pith Number

pith:BEFAOW3D

pith:1998:BEFAOW3DOBET62LTBRVLG335FP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Bicriteria Network Design Problems

Daniel J. Rosenkrantz, Harry B. Hunt III, Madhav V. Marathe, Ravi Sundaram, R. Ravi, S. S. Ravi

arxiv:cs/9809103 v1 · 1998-09-24 · cs.CC · cs.DS

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BEFAOW3DOBET62LTBRVLG335FP}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-04T23:57:25.774566Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

090a075b6370493f69730c6ab36f7d2bde601d04e475014cb19a77ea7942d18e

Aliases

arxiv: cs/9809103 · arxiv_version: cs/9809103v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cs/9809103 · pith_short_12: BEFAOW3DOBET · pith_short_16: BEFAOW3DOBET62LT · pith_short_8: BEFAOW3D

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/BEFAOW3DOBET62LTBRVLG335FP \
  | 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: 090a075b6370493f69730c6ab36f7d2bde601d04e475014cb19a77ea7942d18e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6604e32cc1b04cf93f05f97d0f490ce3bac74aaa05e9c6f00f8478d6e42d2949",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CC",
    "submitted_at": "1998-09-24T17:48:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "350ad84cd4991b07a88c84bcf3096a4b312cb087a0cbfdabbb77984ecf754ed3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "cs/9809103",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}