Pith Number

pith:XF3YS5TX

pith:2016:XF3YS5TX6P266ODPFUY473DIF6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Deterministic Discrepancy Minimization via the Multiplicative Weight Update Method

Avi Levy, Harishchandra Ramadas, Thomas Rothvoss

arxiv:1611.08752 v3 · 2016-11-26 · cs.DM · cs.CG · cs.DS · math.CO

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XF3YS5TX6P266ODPFUY473DIF6}

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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	2026-05-18T00:48:53.664110Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b977897677f3f5ef386f2d31cfec682f958dcf460ab3c3b682ede2cda30ec72d

Aliases

arxiv: 1611.08752 · arxiv_version: 1611.08752v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1611.08752 · pith_short_12: XF3YS5TX6P26 · pith_short_16: XF3YS5TX6P266ODP · pith_short_8: XF3YS5TX

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/XF3YS5TX6P266ODPFUY473DIF6 \
  | 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: b977897677f3f5ef386f2d31cfec682f958dcf460ab3c3b682ede2cda30ec72d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "260bc81c848279c614a3fdc3f3ea0ff0849a3137aae8ad3509d2da8583846139",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CG",
      "cs.DS",
      "math.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DM",
    "submitted_at": "2016-11-26T22:27:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "410bf860ff13bb06b972581ea99b070f2db89a2251fccd8f78e4a7e8207f1176"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1611.08752",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}