Pith Number

pith:TUFYBIBP

pith:2026:TUFYBIBPFP3ZOTSAGNLNCHCOKA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Pessimal Elections for Approximately Dominating Sets

Kangning Wang, Moses Charikar, Prasanna Ramakrishnan

arxiv:2608.06872 v1 · 2026-08-07 · cs.GT · cs.DM · math.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TUFYBIBPFP3ZOTSAGNLNCHCOKA}

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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	2026-08-10T01:12:21.628834Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9d0b80a02f2bf7974e403356d11c4e5021463b5c0d05dd46c3d9262ab2e1e3a4

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.06872 · arxiv_version: 2608.06872v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.06872 · pith_short_12: TUFYBIBPFP3Z · pith_short_16: TUFYBIBPFP3ZOTSA · pith_short_8: TUFYBIBP

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/TUFYBIBPFP3ZOTSAGNLNCHCOKA \
  | 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: 9d0b80a02f2bf7974e403356d11c4e5021463b5c0d05dd46c3d9262ab2e1e3a4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dca1649e79d02d4c70e0f5c754deddc173035b596fdb585228caa23dcb6a949f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DM",
      "math.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-07T06:55:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cff185432d6e083a6a5c9e438d119ab57d0df024280c67520d2b19160177b2f5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.06872",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}