Pith Number

pith:EK5QVCFL

pith:2014:EK5QVCFLJ7FFPJTO7VKUPVOUST

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quickest Online Selection of an Increasing Subsequence of Specified Size

Alessandro Arlotto, Elchanan Mossel, J. Michael Steele

arxiv:1412.7985 v2 · 2014-12-26 · math.PR · math.OC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EK5QVCFLJ7FFPJTO7VKUPVOUST}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T01:06:24.727165Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

22bb0a88ab4fca57a66efd5547d5d494c9e0b2f53274a7e782083a89c36b0add

Aliases

arxiv: 1412.7985 · arxiv_version: 1412.7985v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1412.7985 · pith_short_12: EK5QVCFLJ7FF · pith_short_16: EK5QVCFLJ7FFPJTO · pith_short_8: EK5QVCFL

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/EK5QVCFLJ7FFPJTO7VKUPVOUST \
  | 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: 22bb0a88ab4fca57a66efd5547d5d494c9e0b2f53274a7e782083a89c36b0add

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "14dc188e333d4075f4c5ffdeef65ee32a340fafc532eb5aa283e0b259a7d05a5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.OC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2014-12-26T20:07:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0e878adee3f0cf525a7b12e182632296e2adc6de8a008a3146afb5be9eba7698"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1412.7985",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}