Pith Number

pith:J5ZP3KTC

pith:2026:J5ZP3KTCW7MPKFPSRVSEDAIUU5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the Hardness of Strong Metric Dimension

Prafullkumar Tale

arxiv:2608.06747 v1 · 2026-08-07 · cs.CC · cs.DS

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{J5ZP3KTCW7MPKFPSRVSEDAIUU5}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-08-10T01:11:54.949998Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4f72fdaa62b7d8f515f28d64418114a74483c6627861e804b7e66200403e8688

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.06747 · arxiv_version: 2608.06747v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.06747 · pith_short_12: J5ZP3KTCW7MP · pith_short_16: J5ZP3KTCW7MPKFPS · pith_short_8: J5ZP3KTC

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/J5ZP3KTCW7MPKFPSRVSEDAIUU5 \
  | 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: 4f72fdaa62b7d8f515f28d64418114a74483c6627861e804b7e66200403e8688

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f5e3571e4fbae211878ca589cdaa694e137cf394f131ad5e2f4faf6756c7bcf8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CC",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-07T03:15:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "de64fd18c7efcc3ceea630b7add205f4f451a609899819813f0b085600edfdd4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.06747",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}