Pith Number

pith:JYAE5FUJ

pith:2019:JYAE5FUJ4ZZVKTVEF63VPTJJUR

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Improved Network Decompositions using Small Messages with Applications on MIS, Neighborhood Covers, and Beyond

Julian Portmann, Mohsen Ghaffari

arxiv:1908.03500 v1 · 2019-08-09 · cs.DS · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JYAE5FUJ4ZZVKTVEF63VPTJJUR}

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4 Citations open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T23:52:40.452619Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4e004e9689e673554ea42fb757cd29a44cbcd31e0ada3fd4ddce86b76fcaafe8

Aliases

arxiv: 1908.03500 · arxiv_version: 1908.03500v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1908.03500 · pith_short_12: JYAE5FUJ4ZZV · pith_short_16: JYAE5FUJ4ZZVKTVE · pith_short_8: JYAE5FUJ

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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/JYAE5FUJ4ZZVKTVEF63VPTJJUR \
  | 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: 4e004e9689e673554ea42fb757cd29a44cbcd31e0ada3fd4ddce86b76fcaafe8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fd35201e05974f936d06affbae145b301337f7ad6dc4b06d402a4d221e37116c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2019-08-09T15:42:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3949258dee4abf065ad31ff637a25c42b8dd9683cdccc254b16c72cb13492fbb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1908.03500",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}