Pith Number

pith:JL2CUKM7

pith:2021:JL2CUKM7PQKC3AMI4PYACGZ5BX

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Towards the k-server conjecture: A unifying potential, pushing the frontier to the circle

Christian Coester, Elias Koutsoupias

arxiv:2102.10474 v1 · 2021-02-20 · cs.DS

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\pithnumber{JL2CUKM7PQKC3AMI4PYACGZ5BX}

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$k$-server-bench: Automating Potential Discovery for the $k$-Server Conjecture

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First computed	2026-07-05T02:16:58.302818Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4af42a299f7c142d8188e3f0011b3d0dccb9ece18abb1cb37a51107ae7da03eb

Aliases

arxiv: 2102.10474 · arxiv_version: 2102.10474v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2102.10474 · pith_short_12: JL2CUKM7PQKC · pith_short_16: JL2CUKM7PQKC3AMI · pith_short_8: JL2CUKM7

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/JL2CUKM7PQKC3AMI4PYACGZ5BX \
  | 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: 4af42a299f7c142d8188e3f0011b3d0dccb9ece18abb1cb37a51107ae7da03eb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c7d16aee193886fce540568aabc79603b262d8201c0b61c883f4b7a0adf1b50a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2021-02-20T23:29:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9b07bc4f631d8758e732ee2f902238595e8a3ad8d8d833e30eef8343f7bf465a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2102.10474",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}