Pith Number

pith:JGWGQFSW

pith:2017:JGWGQFSWRDSS5ZHJIEMAZKIEGD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Optimal On The Fly Index Selection in Polynomial Time

Bernhard Scholz, Herbert Jordan, Pavle Suboti\'c

arxiv:1709.03685 v1 · 2017-09-12 · cs.DB

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JGWGQFSWRDSS5ZHJIEMAZKIEGD}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:35:29.785335Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

49ac68165688e52ee4e941180ca90430c359f626f9f191f650cbd15015ea16e7

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.03685 · arxiv_version: 1709.03685v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.03685 · pith_short_12: JGWGQFSWRDSS · pith_short_16: JGWGQFSWRDSS5ZHJ · pith_short_8: JGWGQFSW

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/JGWGQFSWRDSS5ZHJIEMAZKIEGD \
  | 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: 49ac68165688e52ee4e941180ca90430c359f626f9f191f650cbd15015ea16e7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c5babb6e98fd878a203d52ddded658139746d216bc6c81f299515775c3099d32",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DB",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-12T04:10:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "314396c7772de6af4d8dacb4a3786103f18d293cd8fb8f5dcb1c82c7ef03f724"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.03685",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}