Pith Number

pith:VSF6FIPG

pith:2015:VSF6FIPGJUHL5KVUPE4LN2HF2L

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Randomised Rounding with Applications

Dhiraj Madan, Sandeep Sen

arxiv:1507.08501 v1 · 2015-07-30 · cs.DS

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VSF6FIPGJUHL5KVUPE4LN2HF2L}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:36:06.242116Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ac8be2a1e64d0ebeaab47938b6e8e5d2cd4f2d98fd3937a301184798cbeb8639

Aliases

arxiv: 1507.08501 · arxiv_version: 1507.08501v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1507.08501 · pith_short_12: VSF6FIPGJUHL · pith_short_16: VSF6FIPGJUHL5KVU · pith_short_8: VSF6FIPG

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/VSF6FIPGJUHL5KVUPE4LN2HF2L \
  | 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: ac8be2a1e64d0ebeaab47938b6e8e5d2cd4f2d98fd3937a301184798cbeb8639

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8d41dd6f0c8e670ae0a1774e57dcfa2ecad40f51f40626ad507263bc7efacb18",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2015-07-30T13:47:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0ea32c5600af4991d12d57cbedc953e72636097fe33018994072cf02fe4eaf40"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1507.08501",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}