Pith Number

pith:MNRPKD72

pith:2016:MNRPKD72MRLISQU7R6NSB4B6DW

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On Metric Multi-Covering Problems

Kasturi Varadarajan, Santanu Bhowmick, Tanmay Inamdar

arxiv:1602.04152 v3 · 2016-02-12 · cs.CG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MNRPKD72MRLISQU7R6NSB4B6DW}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:50:40.398335Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6362f50ffa645689429f8f9b20f03e1da91a43b86d586d417427e3a68922a0d7

Aliases

arxiv: 1602.04152 · arxiv_version: 1602.04152v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1602.04152 · pith_short_12: MNRPKD72MRLI · pith_short_16: MNRPKD72MRLISQU7 · pith_short_8: MNRPKD72

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/MNRPKD72MRLISQU7R6NSB4B6DW \
  | 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: 6362f50ffa645689429f8f9b20f03e1da91a43b86d586d417427e3a68922a0d7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "10bba7ee66a6452cbad5ee2f01657d24aded5d3dba12049033c3bd4200dce16c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CG",
    "submitted_at": "2016-02-12T18:34:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "79ec418c04f687cdd7287c08c8995e3b7fefb155f5ae27a98f720084dea9feb7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1602.04152",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}