Pith Number

pith:BI3TUHCP

pith:2018:BI3TUHCPBOFB2RESJJMFBQHQQF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Online Submodular Maximization: Beating 1/2 Made Simple

Mohit Garg, Moran Feldman, Niv Buchbinder, Yuval Filmus

arxiv:1807.05529 v2 · 2018-07-15 · cs.DS

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BI3TUHCPBOFB2RESJJMFBQHQQF}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T00:00:29.969553Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0a373a1c4f0b8a1d44924a5850c0f08151900197437b96cb249bab50921bd1df

Aliases

arxiv: 1807.05529 · arxiv_version: 1807.05529v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1807.05529 · pith_short_12: BI3TUHCPBOFB · pith_short_16: BI3TUHCPBOFB2RES · pith_short_8: BI3TUHCP

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/BI3TUHCPBOFB2RESJJMFBQHQQF \
  | 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: 0a373a1c4f0b8a1d44924a5850c0f08151900197437b96cb249bab50921bd1df

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bdcfff21cb0fe5a5536d977e7a17f05c0cd6a68aced601dae2b0cd5bf273f506",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2018-07-15T11:31:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "202eec870eeb45d171abd9e71dc43637c3825c5e87c028d00fb51da8e9ddbf6e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1807.05529",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}