Pith Number

pith:KFSY4Y5L

pith:2012:KFSY4Y5LKIR3Q7ZSHT7DCYSN5P

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Converting online algorithms to local computation algorithms

Aviad Rubinstein, Ning Xie, Shai Vardi, Yishay Mansour

arxiv:1205.1312 v1 · 2012-05-07 · cs.DS

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KFSY4Y5LKIR3Q7ZSHT7DCYSN5P}

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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	2026-05-18T03:56:11.531165Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

51658e63ab5223b87f323cfe31624debd3655dc04a48c8f8768bb7415089f72c

Aliases

arxiv: 1205.1312 · arxiv_version: 1205.1312v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1205.1312 · pith_short_12: KFSY4Y5LKIR3 · pith_short_16: KFSY4Y5LKIR3Q7ZS · pith_short_8: KFSY4Y5L

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/KFSY4Y5LKIR3Q7ZSHT7DCYSN5P \
  | 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: 51658e63ab5223b87f323cfe31624debd3655dc04a48c8f8768bb7415089f72c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "eb586bcd5e9c5d77ffd5bf71277a7e4b53005e21b63d48e54bf19d6e91e42423",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2012-05-07T08:02:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "26538b75278ee18cf09b5b432dff71e83984ce7251a3160284dd32140b07d18e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1205.1312",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}