Pith Number

pith:WOZZEBOZ

pith:2016:WOZZEBOZYDFV3NMMBZTP64VF2Z

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Stochastic Runtime Analysis of a Cross Entropy Algorithm for Traveling Salesman Problems

Jianhui Lai, Rolf Moehring, Zijun Wu

arxiv:1612.06962 v2 · 2016-12-21 · cs.DS · cs.AI · cs.NE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WOZZEBOZYDFV3NMMBZTP64VF2Z}

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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	2026-05-18T00:27:36.443651Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b3b39205d9c0cb5db58c0e66ff72a5d65dea8242f7becac1a23dc3f32b6c9795

Aliases

arxiv: 1612.06962 · arxiv_version: 1612.06962v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1612.06962 · pith_short_12: WOZZEBOZYDFV · pith_short_16: WOZZEBOZYDFV3NMM · pith_short_8: WOZZEBOZ

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/WOZZEBOZYDFV3NMMBZTP64VF2Z \
  | 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: b3b39205d9c0cb5db58c0e66ff72a5d65dea8242f7becac1a23dc3f32b6c9795

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "581ba92da04a8ec81040da2422560cf352c6eac0ca485e023d530d31cb84487f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.NE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2016-12-21T03:24:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cf0c48846b08814826c1725decf569145ad5e2d148b1358aa89f99f2e0ec0f7c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1612.06962",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}