Pith Number

pith:HGSTWAAW

pith:2012:HGSTWAAWCNKO2LNCARA3H4KSCN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Constructive Discrepancy Minimization by Walking on The Edges

Raghu Meka, Shachar Lovett

arxiv:1203.5747 v2 · 2012-03-26 · cs.DS · cs.DM · math.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HGSTWAAWCNKO2LNCARA3H4KSCN}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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	2026-05-18T03:43:27.189128Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

39a53b00161354ed2da20441b3f1521355b3d30f85163d30693c1690b3eca661

Aliases

arxiv: 1203.5747 · arxiv_version: 1203.5747v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1203.5747 · pith_short_12: HGSTWAAWCNKO · pith_short_16: HGSTWAAWCNKO2LNC · pith_short_8: HGSTWAAW

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/HGSTWAAWCNKO2LNCARA3H4KSCN \
  | 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: 39a53b00161354ed2da20441b3f1521355b3d30f85163d30693c1690b3eca661

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "73d6fe9200448bbfb32c7642de3260082b4fae8065df9532be797b1bce7e1c1b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DM",
      "math.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2012-03-26T17:56:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "89b0ebecd2dca9ebd066df44c583d9690ead9254cfda083ff111bf4219214048"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1203.5747",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}