Pith Number

pith:QXMEF4BF

pith:2012:QXMEF4BF4XBWNARWFD47UYDIO4

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On the Nearest Neighbor Algorithm for Mean Field Traveling Salesman Problem

Antar Bandyopadhyay, Farkhondeh Sajadi

arxiv:1206.6991 v3 · 2012-06-29 · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QXMEF4BF4XBWNARWFD47UYDIO4}

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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	2026-05-18T03:30:25.801964Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

85d842f025e5c366823628f9fa606877318eed44b6eddc4f527a44ce3c9b2825

Aliases

arxiv: 1206.6991 · arxiv_version: 1206.6991v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1206.6991 · pith_short_12: QXMEF4BF4XBW · pith_short_16: QXMEF4BF4XBWNARW · pith_short_8: QXMEF4BF

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QXMEF4BF4XBWNARWFD47UYDIO4 \
  | 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: 85d842f025e5c366823628f9fa606877318eed44b6eddc4f527a44ce3c9b2825

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ec012b81e90736421417854c577f52a887b9e6ebaa71a41dee1685030213399d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2012-06-29T11:36:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "78ead93bec3d79edd7f0203960313875477212af814ae29f46e33b1be2a66457"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1206.6991",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}