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pith:BTG5LN5R

pith:2012:BTG5LN5RTUGMYX7JIIPWZRHUUX

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A Fast Distributed Approximation Algorithm for Minimum Spanning Trees in the SINR Model

Gopal Pandurangan, Guanhong Pei, Maleq Khan, V.S. Anil Kumar

arxiv:1206.1113 v1 · 2012-06-06 · cs.DC · cs.DS

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First computed	2026-05-18T03:54:06.956157Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0ccdd5b7b19d0ccc5fe9421f6cc4f4a5e90cffbd764e5fde85ace69b098bf509

Aliases

arxiv: 1206.1113 · arxiv_version: 1206.1113v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1206.1113 · pith_short_12: BTG5LN5RTUGM · pith_short_16: BTG5LN5RTUGMYX7J · pith_short_8: BTG5LN5R

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BTG5LN5RTUGMYX7JIIPWZRHUUX \
  | 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: 0ccdd5b7b19d0ccc5fe9421f6cc4f4a5e90cffbd764e5fde85ace69b098bf509

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d14458222460d76ec385abeca41396ede2104d23621b0ac0e23c9b5010dee8bf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2012-06-06T03:08:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "13c5d6866f3abd6382167fc272ea15ad8faf1a138580f39ddb7b79104669b2e3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1206.1113",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}