Pith Number

pith:QDWLRJOK

pith:2017:QDWLRJOKRHIDJZTTSFPQX4OGMJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Fast Distributed Approximation for Max-Cut

Hadas Shachnai, Keren Censor-Hillel, Rina Levy

arxiv:1707.08496 v1 · 2017-07-26 · cs.DS · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QDWLRJOKRHIDJZTTSFPQX4OGMJ}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T00:39:24.061454Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

80ecb8a5ca89d034e673915f0bf1c66260acdc0940f1e6d19822add5f934126f

Aliases

arxiv: 1707.08496 · arxiv_version: 1707.08496v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1707.08496 · pith_short_12: QDWLRJOKRHID · pith_short_16: QDWLRJOKRHIDJZTT · pith_short_8: QDWLRJOK

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/QDWLRJOKRHIDJZTTSFPQX4OGMJ \
  | 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: 80ecb8a5ca89d034e673915f0bf1c66260acdc0940f1e6d19822add5f934126f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b386f52263f08ce1f2b7cff81a819c1ea3c0dd0c27f058f813ba6574a397e801",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2017-07-26T15:29:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "033d8e5fe61c037b08ad38c3d935fd8d316609bd075fc780919ecef58646d9a8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1707.08496",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}