Pith Number

pith:PFVZMYP5

pith:2026:PFVZMYP53S4CZEM5SKTSNXRDVX

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New bounds on randomized metric distortion of top-$k$ voting

Alec Sun, Daniel Zhu

arxiv:2607.03564 v1 · 2026-07-03 · cs.GT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PFVZMYP53S4CZEM5SKTSNXRDVX}

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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	2026-07-07T02:17:54.743135Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

796b9661fddcb82c919d92a726de23add9a9f3b2de65b0f751bf4ce8c5bd4a1f

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.03564 · arxiv_version: 2607.03564v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.03564 · pith_short_12: PFVZMYP53S4C · pith_short_16: PFVZMYP53S4CZEM5 · pith_short_8: PFVZMYP5

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/PFVZMYP53S4CZEM5SKTSNXRDVX \
  | 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: 796b9661fddcb82c919d92a726de23add9a9f3b2de65b0f751bf4ce8c5bd4a1f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "392662d0e4404a2d59e607411407b12b7a7b9a7ef4fbdc1f993c2a240331cf58",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-03T19:05:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5a6184cd825d512f2719cf60cc3d086259ede3cee0b441b58cfedefd4df48463"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.03564",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}