Pith Number

pith:LT433HT3

pith:2018:LT433HT3FL4LTGTLYJMWM3ZTQ2

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Distributed Symmetry Breaking in Sampling (Optimal Distributed Randomly Coloring with Fewer Colors)

Thomas P. Hayes, Weiming Feng, Yitong Yin

arxiv:1802.06953 v3 · 2018-02-20 · cs.DS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LT433HT3FL4LTGTLYJMWM3ZTQ2}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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	2026-05-18T00:12:43.421485Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5cf9bd9e7b2af8b99a6bc259666f3386ad5b724a2037a4673a55aaf4392fab95

Aliases

arxiv: 1802.06953 · arxiv_version: 1802.06953v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1802.06953 · pith_short_12: LT433HT3FL4L · pith_short_16: LT433HT3FL4LTGTL · pith_short_8: LT433HT3

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/LT433HT3FL4LTGTLYJMWM3ZTQ2 \
  | 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: 5cf9bd9e7b2af8b99a6bc259666f3386ad5b724a2037a4673a55aaf4392fab95

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b1b85baab0034ce04cc21fe5896ab595b1c73b30c477caeeb33c3f920b485777",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2018-02-20T03:52:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2a4b19f8a74777c48618a0c15e17d42cd5a11e074b49469d5ea08135cbf8b75c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1802.06953",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}