Pith Number

pith:LJMO5KT7

pith:2002:LJMO5KT7ECBIRRUZIY53T64DGU

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Rounding Algorithms for a Geometric Embedding of Minimum Multiway Cut

Cliff Stein, David Karger, Mikkel Thorup, Neal E. Young, Phil Klein

arxiv:cs/0205051 v2 · 2002-05-19 · cs.DS · cs.DM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LJMO5KT7ECBIRRUZIY53T64DGU}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:59:53.875889Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5a58eeaa7f208288c699463bb9fb833518fa3708b6f23eedc80f8887b984b049

Aliases

arxiv: cs/0205051 · arxiv_version: cs/0205051v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cs/0205051 · pith_short_12: LJMO5KT7ECBI · pith_short_16: LJMO5KT7ECBIRRUZ · pith_short_8: LJMO5KT7

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LJMO5KT7ECBIRRUZIY53T64DGU \
  | 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: 5a58eeaa7f208288c699463bb9fb833518fa3708b6f23eedc80f8887b984b049

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "896e14808ab9bbad5c5dbeb7398e4d4096a43b802cc2a1f9e4488647d8ef0a1f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DM"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2002-05-19T14:40:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7fe53b8f9794c62636a25550f716fd0cee38f9da8a39b95aa07ccfb1d8dd50f1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "cs/0205051",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}