Pith Number

pith:SZNVKXO2

pith:2016:SZNVKXO2JCR42Y6BJFQ2EKOV6F

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Generalized Preconditioning and Network Flow Problems

Jonah Sherman

arxiv:1606.07425 v2 · 2016-06-23 · cs.DS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SZNVKXO2JCR42Y6BJFQ2EKOV6F}

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1 paper in Pith

Flows in Almost Linear Time via Adaptive Preconditioning

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:11:54.375778Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

965b555dda48a3cd63c14961a229d5f160d0d0da68e78529730694c54fe89e21

Aliases

arxiv: 1606.07425 · arxiv_version: 1606.07425v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1606.07425 · pith_short_12: SZNVKXO2JCR4 · pith_short_16: SZNVKXO2JCR42Y6B · pith_short_8: SZNVKXO2

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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/SZNVKXO2JCR42Y6BJFQ2EKOV6F \
  | 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: 965b555dda48a3cd63c14961a229d5f160d0d0da68e78529730694c54fe89e21

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6001cfc402101c057290a6d56010d8ca8c8e8ec9e132479966d339e64caa378c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2016-06-23T19:56:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "de3e2294f4a0b15fea3b88929889ac5e357020eae6d6aba40441117b26e41bf2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1606.07425",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}