Pith Number

pith:VQI237SM

pith:2023:VQI237SM5JTYSRKDLAEJP3RPTM

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Men Can't Always be Transformed into Mice: Decision Algorithms and Complexity for Sorting by Symmetric Reversals

Binhai Zhu, Daming Zhu, Haitao Jiang, Lusheng Wang, Xin Tong, Yixiao Yu, Ziyi Fang

arxiv:2302.03797 v1 · 2023-02-07 · cs.DS

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\pithnumber{VQI237SM5JTYSRKDLAEJP3RPTM}

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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	2026-07-05T05:39:57.849061Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ac11adfe4cea67894543580897ee2f9b21185eab19d12337c3a52d9f268de6ae

Aliases

arxiv: 2302.03797 · arxiv_version: 2302.03797v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2302.03797 · pith_short_12: VQI237SM5JTY · pith_short_16: VQI237SM5JTYSRKD · pith_short_8: VQI237SM

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VQI237SM5JTYSRKDLAEJP3RPTM \
  | 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: ac11adfe4cea67894543580897ee2f9b21185eab19d12337c3a52d9f268de6ae

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2023-02-07T23:29:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4f0f9e10a5d07e44496438a8695f08979bb01cb859a1b19f7381e9eed194501d"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}