Pith Number

pith:CVH5OFVX

pith:2015:CVH5OFVXJZUBVAT44KHV7WR6RD

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An Improved Distributed Algorithm for Maximal Independent Set

Mohsen Ghaffari

arxiv:1506.05093 v2 · 2015-06-16 · cs.DS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CVH5OFVXJZUBVAT44KHV7WR6RD}

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-18T01:37:01.371572Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

154fd716b74e681a827ce28f5fda3e88d3a633983095cf631895b650895cc0d1

Aliases

arxiv: 1506.05093 · arxiv_version: 1506.05093v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1506.05093 · pith_short_12: CVH5OFVXJZUB · pith_short_16: CVH5OFVXJZUBVAT4 · pith_short_8: CVH5OFVX

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/CVH5OFVXJZUBVAT44KHV7WR6RD \
  | 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: 154fd716b74e681a827ce28f5fda3e88d3a633983095cf631895b650895cc0d1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "341ea1a8fc53d8eb582dbf4c11a76613143e1fe45d40d3dea3d3068a3fc35e00",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2015-06-16T19:38:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "22cfebe9875793f6d0fccec895f02d823720e11ed88325d10cf88f4f11b93c07"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1506.05093",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}