Pith Number

pith:ECZL2FU5

pith:2013:ECZL2FU5NGB7HC3LSPTIJGPHHX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Distributed Minimum Cut Approximation

Fabian Kuhn, Mohsen Ghaffari

arxiv:1305.5520 v2 · 2013-05-23 · cs.DS · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ECZL2FU5NGB7HC3LSPTIJGPHHX}

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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	2026-05-18T03:06:35.177215Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

20b2bd169d6983f38b6b93e68499e73dd297f12bcfd14431c47d869ee9d3beb8

Aliases

arxiv: 1305.5520 · arxiv_version: 1305.5520v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1305.5520 · pith_short_12: ECZL2FU5NGB7 · pith_short_16: ECZL2FU5NGB7HC3L · pith_short_8: ECZL2FU5

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/ECZL2FU5NGB7HC3LSPTIJGPHHX \
  | 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: 20b2bd169d6983f38b6b93e68499e73dd297f12bcfd14431c47d869ee9d3beb8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e654d67d39b5200a9c08b365031de2223ce90e83e8cfd6985ff883ab3fb029ee",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2013-05-23T19:13:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5831f9c15e9dff06ceb41cbfb65fb9fb0f4002e7ad0cda569f785453e150f5ee"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1305.5520",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}