Pith Number

pith:RZAYCGK5

pith:2016:RZAYCGK53D3DYVWJ6X4SRDIGHF

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A Deterministic Annealing Approach to the Multiple Traveling Salesmen and Related Problems

Brian Roehl, Mayank Baranwal, Srinivasa M. Salapaka

arxiv:1604.04169 v1 · 2016-04-14 · math.OC · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RZAYCGK53D3DYVWJ6X4SRDIGHF}

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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	2026-05-18T01:17:06.349810Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8e4181195dd8f63c56c9f5f9288d06395a083fa9b51100012824156a162f7c50

Aliases

arxiv: 1604.04169 · arxiv_version: 1604.04169v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1604.04169 · pith_short_12: RZAYCGK53D3D · pith_short_16: RZAYCGK53D3DYVWJ · pith_short_8: RZAYCGK5

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RZAYCGK53D3DYVWJ6X4SRDIGHF \
  | 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: 8e4181195dd8f63c56c9f5f9288d06395a083fa9b51100012824156a162f7c50

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c9f4e0f230fa294397dd21a76df4ea975c901d6d8c382642ee1da92719668471",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2016-04-14T14:39:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "dffb68dcfee5693f9ea43e1604b7628a29f9a7318a41a88f06cc81cd4e60813b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1604.04169",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}