Pith Number

pith:BFSUZ3X2

pith:2017:BFSUZ3X2BRRSK6WEJBIFEB2KI5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Bane of Low-Dimensionality Clustering

Alan Roytman, Arnaud de Mesmay, Eva Rotenberg, Vincent Cohen-Addad

arxiv:1711.01171 v1 · 2017-11-03 · cs.DS · cs.CG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BFSUZ3X2BRRSK6WEJBIFEB2KI5}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:31:23.245933Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

09654ceefa0c63257ac4485052074a47787ed2c2e96fdaedb950814f70e343b8

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.01171 · arxiv_version: 1711.01171v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.01171 · pith_short_12: BFSUZ3X2BRRS · pith_short_16: BFSUZ3X2BRRSK6WE · pith_short_8: BFSUZ3X2

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/BFSUZ3X2BRRSK6WEJBIFEB2KI5 \
  | 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: 09654ceefa0c63257ac4485052074a47787ed2c2e96fdaedb950814f70e343b8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c39f3f255c1a1ded0d38cd3542ea532f29218f9f581ca39479b2829586f54440",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-03T14:05:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "84cd33fdf0a07a53899b0ea3d362520f4888c1ff89fb0010c3d7b992d9a2db64"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.01171",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}