Pith Number

pith:QWKQP3AU

pith:2019:QWKQP3AUPBF2UYS57Z7IQDHDXG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On-Line Balancing of Random Inputs

Joel H. Spencer, Nikhil Bansal

arxiv:1903.06898 v2 · 2019-03-16 · cs.DS · cs.DM · math.PR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QWKQP3AUPBF2UYS57Z7IQDHDXG}

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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	2026-07-05T01:17:56.377393Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

859507ec14784baa625dfe7e880ce3b9bffa425ae71e71a43f9efac196462a3c

Aliases

arxiv: 1903.06898 · arxiv_version: 1903.06898v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1903.06898 · pith_short_12: QWKQP3AUPBF2 · pith_short_16: QWKQP3AUPBF2UYS5 · pith_short_8: QWKQP3AU

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/QWKQP3AUPBF2UYS57Z7IQDHDXG \
  | 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: 859507ec14784baa625dfe7e880ce3b9bffa425ae71e71a43f9efac196462a3c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "51a203cce3b08e8222f359cb29b66ef5a28de459e7efb50ade01f997260649d9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DM",
      "math.PR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2019-03-16T08:54:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2508fde1c5bdeb17d4e71592dc73891cc34529fcd08d38fc45a4bedfe8106238"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1903.06898",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}