Pith Number

pith:SHVNEYQ3

pith:2018:SHVNEYQ3CV2CNM6PZYG5UQULOF

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An Optimal Space Lower Bound for Approximating MAX-CUT

Dmitry Krachun, Michael Kapralov

arxiv:1811.10879 v1 · 2018-11-27 · cs.DS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SHVNEYQ3CV2CNM6PZYG5UQULOF}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:59:47.241594Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

91ead2621b157426b3cfce0dda428b7158ee2c0fb3fa26f6da920db3879a65d1

Aliases

arxiv: 1811.10879 · arxiv_version: 1811.10879v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1811.10879 · pith_short_12: SHVNEYQ3CV2C · pith_short_16: SHVNEYQ3CV2CNM6P · pith_short_8: SHVNEYQ3

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/SHVNEYQ3CV2CNM6PZYG5UQULOF \
  | 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: 91ead2621b157426b3cfce0dda428b7158ee2c0fb3fa26f6da920db3879a65d1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "037239876ea824129babf9855f264954a63e3db115c56d0dc8efc0ca023836f1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2018-11-27T09:04:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d577d292aa7315c4a35061b513bf0945b6345268420828967ff27475d93b7f5b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1811.10879",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}