Pith Number

pith:VRODQSO5

pith:2018:VRODQSO5JQ3FJV4PNAGPDASENT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

k-Maximum Subarrays for Small k: Divide-and-Conquer made simpler

Hemant Malik, Ovidiu Daescu

arxiv:1804.05956 v2 · 2018-04-16 · cs.DS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VRODQSO5JQ3FJV4PNAGPDASENT}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T00:10:10.324736Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ac5c3849dd4c3654d78f680cf182446cd27c8289a83bc93699135f67cfc75ab8

Aliases

arxiv: 1804.05956 · arxiv_version: 1804.05956v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1804.05956 · pith_short_12: VRODQSO5JQ3F · pith_short_16: VRODQSO5JQ3FJV4P · pith_short_8: VRODQSO5

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/VRODQSO5JQ3FJV4PNAGPDASENT \
  | 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: ac5c3849dd4c3654d78f680cf182446cd27c8289a83bc93699135f67cfc75ab8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cc3c7bda152e2e8c06ea32afdf73c55ce76c7715ca7c92b2e6f2286f607f0bbb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2018-04-16T21:54:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b860ca6766b060a4fa9ea30879872697d72d11c6a97a4fd00615dc0e71e8b33e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1804.05956",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}