Pith Number

pith:LXLCSIFK

pith:2013:LXLCSIFKZ75CKNVLOTVRYAVQVG

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Navigating Central Path with Electrical Flows: from Flows to Matchings, and Back

Aleksander Madry

arxiv:1307.2205 v3 · 2013-07-08 · cs.DS

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\pithnumber{LXLCSIFKZ75CKNVLOTVRYAVQVG}

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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	2026-05-18T03:09:11.714842Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5dd62920aacffa2536ab74eb1c02b0a9b58f07799e228aca826a9998eda2f3e2

Aliases

arxiv: 1307.2205 · arxiv_version: 1307.2205v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1307.2205 · pith_short_12: LXLCSIFKZ75C · pith_short_16: LXLCSIFKZ75CKNVL · pith_short_8: LXLCSIFK

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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/LXLCSIFKZ75CKNVLOTVRYAVQVG \
  | 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: 5dd62920aacffa2536ab74eb1c02b0a9b58f07799e228aca826a9998eda2f3e2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d9e2f1942d5421adb0623e8a4673010bd29e1353a030790d20ef353a09864b96",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2013-07-08T19:13:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "634efaf8cf0e3c4e723dff3755bb3313089a558c7c1454b4b7c22f38336b5173"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1307.2205",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}