Pith Number

pith:Q5GG2E5L

pith:2017:Q5GG2E5LOVTK35OZJFS37TWSTI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Orthogonal Vectors Conjecture for Branching Programs and Formulas

Daniel Kane, Ryan Williams

arxiv:1709.05294 v1 · 2017-09-15 · cs.CC · cs.DS

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\pithnumber{Q5GG2E5LOVTK35OZJFS37TWSTI}

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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	2026-05-18T00:35:06.086284Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

874c6d13ab7566adf5d94965bfced29a255be52b302735684d0441fb3de81939

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.05294 · arxiv_version: 1709.05294v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.05294 · pith_short_12: Q5GG2E5LOVTK · pith_short_16: Q5GG2E5LOVTK35OZ · pith_short_8: Q5GG2E5L

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/Q5GG2E5LOVTK35OZJFS37TWSTI \
  | 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: 874c6d13ab7566adf5d94965bfced29a255be52b302735684d0441fb3de81939

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5678e1e460c6f011c78ccf5cf81a20c367328c47954fda04c5f4e9c1fd33d4da",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-15T16:26:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "73b4404647a52e76123ac9fa22c106fb100adc5b695ff6958a77fa394f35af3b"
  },
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  "source": {
    "id": "1709.05294",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}