Pith Number

pith:ILQZ3DZ7

pith:2026:ILQZ3DZ7ZICHCHN64T2KBCY42C

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Hardness of A/E-Design under Partition Constraints

Nikhil Bansal, Yuze Xu

arxiv:2608.05468 v1 · 2026-08-05 · cs.DS · cs.DM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ILQZ3DZ7ZICHCHN64T2KBCY42C}

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-08-07T00:47:55.270415Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

42e19d8f3fca04711dbee4f4a08b1cd0a40965794f374d44c1caccd892f6037f

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.05468 · arxiv_version: 2608.05468v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.05468 · pith_short_12: ILQZ3DZ7ZICH · pith_short_16: ILQZ3DZ7ZICHCHN6 · pith_short_8: ILQZ3DZ7

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ILQZ3DZ7ZICHCHN64T2KBCY42C \
  | 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: 42e19d8f3fca04711dbee4f4a08b1cd0a40965794f374d44c1caccd892f6037f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "de3b1ca8ec8ec73a182e38ba7b8943f64ac15f796a51178e5c6690d00cd42a40",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DM"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-05T23:33:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "57bc9eb70fca1b22767fef8b6bc1be1e0c751b2affc55f24c3eacadd341c69b0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.05468",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}