Pith Number

pith:RFBWJDBB

pith:2012:RFBWJDBBECNWR4R2CYONCI6DON

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Power of Choice for Random Satisfiability

Cristopher Moore, Josep Diaz, Thomas Hayes, Varsha Dani

arxiv:1211.6997 v2 · 2012-11-29 · cs.CC · math.CO

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RFBWJDBBECNWR4R2CYONCI6DON}

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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	2026-05-18T03:39:41.153305Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8943648c21209b68f23a161cd123c3735b4a67bac94ce8cce094b1a9e29156d1

Aliases

arxiv: 1211.6997 · arxiv_version: 1211.6997v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1211.6997 · pith_short_12: RFBWJDBBECNW · pith_short_16: RFBWJDBBECNWR4R2 · pith_short_8: RFBWJDBB

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/RFBWJDBBECNWR4R2CYONCI6DON \
  | 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: 8943648c21209b68f23a161cd123c3735b4a67bac94ce8cce094b1a9e29156d1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dcb882b0b64d161c144fd2f31b92b3f97850860bb05f591733e3c426a09f140c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CC",
    "submitted_at": "2012-11-29T17:30:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "db5899deb6c76fbc2b3b87deba2629a45b29ace115337d76d9667681e0723999"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1211.6997",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}