Pith Number

pith:NTQ5FCPG

pith:2008:NTQ5FCPGJVHURNPA64LXFTUPWA

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Complete convergence of message passing algorithms for some satisfiability problems

Dan Vilenchik, Elchanan Mossel, Uriel Feige

arxiv:0812.0147 v2 · 2008-11-30 · math.PR

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\pithnumber{NTQ5FCPGJVHURNPA64LXFTUPWA}

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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	2026-05-18T04:32:34.216181Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6ce1d289e64d4f48b5e0f71772ce8fb002edc1acc86c42fbb231454dfa8ffb97

Aliases

arxiv: 0812.0147 · arxiv_version: 0812.0147v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0812.0147 · pith_short_12: NTQ5FCPGJVHU · pith_short_16: NTQ5FCPGJVHURNPA · pith_short_8: NTQ5FCPG

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NTQ5FCPGJVHURNPA64LXFTUPWA \
  | 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: 6ce1d289e64d4f48b5e0f71772ce8fb002edc1acc86c42fbb231454dfa8ffb97

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "94e66f1b709bf6406cce311ad86c3642f5ad6575840f8601a3e863df0eb31c31",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2008-11-30T15:22:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ecc92c052a9ec0d80825735cd6eace96673006c0b57aa35dd703582b48436d72"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0812.0147",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}