Pith Number

pith:VEBCMTZU

pith:2017:VEBCMTZUBHDUEEXGUHUWXUN4TE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Maximizing the area of intersection of rectangles

David B.A. Epstein, Mike Paterson

arxiv:1703.08658 v1 · 2017-03-25 · cs.DS

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VEBCMTZUBHDUEEXGUHUWXUN4TE}

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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	2026-05-18T00:47:55.946677Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a902264f3409c74212e6a1e96bd1bc991631ba7bf9b814f3e4ddca054e4f81b7

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.08658 · arxiv_version: 1703.08658v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.08658 · pith_short_12: VEBCMTZUBHDU · pith_short_16: VEBCMTZUBHDUEEXG · pith_short_8: VEBCMTZU

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/VEBCMTZUBHDUEEXGUHUWXUN4TE \
  | 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: a902264f3409c74212e6a1e96bd1bc991631ba7bf9b814f3e4ddca054e4f81b7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "41903c06044f87af3ad453b731182c4d30f3d052890a07cdd41d755bed9cf7ca",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-25T07:27:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "84d99d73961f4928d8838c17dfc60de29d5dd05aa9e3ef843379a4fc1f13e506"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.08658",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}