Pith Number

pith:QZINHPEK

pith:2016:QZINHPEKK7HW7TMO2WYQBUFSB4

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On the Exact Amount of Missing Information that makes Finding Possible Winners Hard

Neeldhara Misra, Palash Dey

arxiv:1610.08407 v1 · 2016-10-26 · cs.GT · cs.DS · cs.MA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QZINHPEKK7HW7TMO2WYQBUFSB4}

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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	2026-05-18T01:01:09.459479Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8650d3bc8a57cf6fcd8ed5b100d0b20f2a68395f58de73c7655b688f34fdf1c3

Aliases

arxiv: 1610.08407 · arxiv_version: 1610.08407v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1610.08407 · pith_short_12: QZINHPEKK7HW · pith_short_16: QZINHPEKK7HW7TMO · pith_short_8: QZINHPEK

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/QZINHPEKK7HW7TMO2WYQBUFSB4 \
  | 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: 8650d3bc8a57cf6fcd8ed5b100d0b20f2a68395f58de73c7655b688f34fdf1c3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "441c4ae76970d9e98d29e93087da34ef41d419cabd22a0e48f6e32a8e06f19ba",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS",
      "cs.MA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2016-10-26T16:37:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e3c2b1948eff758516068533c90f22b304663dfcafd9a6c2a87672b33def7217"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1610.08407",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}