Pith Number

pith:LVH6BXSS

pith:2015:LVH6BXSSMMU6DJF5RIDUQVKKSL

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Merit factors of polynomials derived from difference sets

Christian G\"unther, Kai-Uwe Schmidt

arxiv:1503.05858 v2 · 2015-03-19 · math.CO · cs.IT · math.IT

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\pithnumber{LVH6BXSSMMU6DJF5RIDUQVKKSL}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:20:59.229696Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5d4fe0de526329e1a4bd8a0748554a92c672064771ec16c8ea9fddfc4698c488

Aliases

arxiv: 1503.05858 · arxiv_version: 1503.05858v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1503.05858 · pith_short_12: LVH6BXSSMMU6 · pith_short_16: LVH6BXSSMMU6DJF5 · pith_short_8: LVH6BXSS

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LVH6BXSSMMU6DJF5RIDUQVKKSL \
  | 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: 5d4fe0de526329e1a4bd8a0748554a92c672064771ec16c8ea9fddfc4698c488

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2015-03-19T17:59:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c614015486f21b0f227a36c3bc76d0b3d72b96c69f274888a677305bf3c14aaf"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}