Pith Number

pith:OTEC5M6W

pith:2012:OTEC5M6WN7DRX3HQ6LRMLXJQPB

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Finding Small Sparse Cuts Locally by Random Walk

Lap Chi Lau, Tsz Chiu Kwok

arxiv:1204.4666 v1 · 2012-04-20 · cs.DS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OTEC5M6WN7DRX3HQ6LRMLXJQPB}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T03:57:25.765466Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

74c82eb3d66fc71becf0f2e2c5dd3078660791d1d9d4535ef5295560b222f6a6

Aliases

arxiv: 1204.4666 · arxiv_version: 1204.4666v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1204.4666 · pith_short_12: OTEC5M6WN7DR · pith_short_16: OTEC5M6WN7DRX3HQ · pith_short_8: OTEC5M6W

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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/OTEC5M6WN7DRX3HQ6LRMLXJQPB \
  | 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: 74c82eb3d66fc71becf0f2e2c5dd3078660791d1d9d4535ef5295560b222f6a6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f3e4909b14f7da30d48dc469de7af530cab6a2611c899ffcc40f21cdfd3e024a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2012-04-20T16:16:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9359c9ae8445cb1f4b71cb664d1298c09bfa0982b8e6bbcba655b2fc51f3875a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1204.4666",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}