Pith Number

pith:MWPW7TJE

pith:2017:MWPW7TJEFXL4GF34BMVOHKGDX3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Small hitting-sets for tiny arithmetic circuits or: How to turn bad designs into good

Manindra Agrawal, Michael Forbes, Nitin Saxena, Sumanta Ghosh

arxiv:1702.07180 v1 · 2017-02-23 · cs.CC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MWPW7TJEFXL4GF34BMVOHKGDX3}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T00:50:07.957283Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

659f6fcd242dd7c3177c0b2ae3a8c3befd427d98e217dc3d8d9f240ee4474105

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.07180 · arxiv_version: 1702.07180v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.07180 · pith_short_12: MWPW7TJEFXL4 · pith_short_16: MWPW7TJEFXL4GF34 · pith_short_8: MWPW7TJE

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/MWPW7TJEFXL4GF34BMVOHKGDX3 \
  | 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: 659f6fcd242dd7c3177c0b2ae3a8c3befd427d98e217dc3d8d9f240ee4474105

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "515f3961fc97843fed862554797b022529f8813dfe5018bada4d1ab815b8f2bb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-23T11:38:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3e186070d151310787a5158cd62e79367eabed7cb9752b02483a6f487c933b2e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.07180",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}