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pith:QWEVDW4N

pith:2016:QWEVDW4NS55IS4HDV2HKIOZ72G

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Near-Linear Lower Bounds for Distributed Distance Computations, Even in Sparse Networks

Amir Abboud, Keren Censor-Hillel, Seri Khoury

arxiv:1605.05109 v1 · 2016-05-17 · cs.DC · cs.DS

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\pithnumber{QWEVDW4NS55IS4HDV2HKIOZ72G}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:14:37.357382Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

858951db8d977a8970e3ae8ea43b3fd1bc2e74359275880bfd45296292555e20

Aliases

arxiv: 1605.05109 · arxiv_version: 1605.05109v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1605.05109 · pith_short_12: QWEVDW4NS55I · pith_short_16: QWEVDW4NS55IS4HD · pith_short_8: QWEVDW4N

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QWEVDW4NS55IS4HDV2HKIOZ72G \
  | 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: 858951db8d977a8970e3ae8ea43b3fd1bc2e74359275880bfd45296292555e20

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cb15289250f4b412003e6ad4fd6c4b9df979297c693409c95763c912307bd02a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2016-05-17T11:02:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "938c172ae4a7e949ba71d533e79ce754aa84355a982fbeb74ba71cf103bf5e44"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}