Pith Number

pith:ERGQFTCA

pith:2012:ERGQFTCALK7QIKE5IJKULQEPS5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the practically interesting instances of MAXCUT

Amit Daniely, Michael Saks, Nati Linial, Yonatan Bilu

arxiv:1205.4893 v1 · 2012-05-22 · cs.CC · cs.LG

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ERGQFTCALK7QIKE5IJKULQEPS5}

Prints a linked badge after your title and injects PDF metadata. Compiles on arXiv. Learn more · Embed verified badge

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	2026-05-18T03:55:11.382389Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

244d02cc405abf04289d425545c08f9746bcff410baa017bcf9d01b48286842d

Aliases

arxiv: 1205.4893 · arxiv_version: 1205.4893v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1205.4893 · pith_short_12: ERGQFTCALK7Q · pith_short_16: ERGQFTCALK7QIKE5 · pith_short_8: ERGQFTCA

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/ERGQFTCALK7QIKE5IJKULQEPS5 \
  | 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: 244d02cc405abf04289d425545c08f9746bcff410baa017bcf9d01b48286842d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a1571afcfebc0005ae22596d2b90effaefc3db8defd7595e4e35aeeec0c7c6ae",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CC",
    "submitted_at": "2012-05-22T12:30:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a985940862f40d15bd34c6e59b1047f0b087a0138ef7a380ba9de568817922d2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1205.4893",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}