Pith Number

pith:IXQXVXFG

pith:2017:IXQXVXFGDJJQQ4I5RM3PNWPRNI

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A Max-Cut approximation using a graph based MBO scheme

Blaine Keetch, Yves van Gennip

arxiv:1711.02419 v2 · 2017-11-07 · math.AP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IXQXVXFGDJJQQ4I5RM3PNWPRNI}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:41:01.430067Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

45e17adca61a5308711d8b36f6d9f16a2a42356e4c06095a472e410a45ef47e9

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.02419 · arxiv_version: 1711.02419v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.02419 · pith_short_12: IXQXVXFGDJJQ · pith_short_16: IXQXVXFGDJJQQ4I5 · pith_short_8: IXQXVXFG

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/IXQXVXFGDJJQQ4I5RM3PNWPRNI \
  | 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: 45e17adca61a5308711d8b36f6d9f16a2a42356e4c06095a472e410a45ef47e9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "962520a1aa0e218741042b5a2c226ae3b18574042763ebe3a43a362076f18384",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.AP",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-07T11:57:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "669cd4ef144138ef1fb3b4b30ec2e7b04c684f0bb44257896b78313d467bcd05"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.02419",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}