Pith Number

pith:XJ4XU5ZW

pith:2013:XJ4XU5ZWQCMNAJFLPBD7AVAA2A

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Balanced Allocations: A Simple Proof for the Heavily Loaded Case

Kunal Talwar, Udi Wieder

arxiv:1310.5367 v1 · 2013-10-20 · cs.DM · cs.DS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XJ4XU5ZWQCMNAJFLPBD7AVAA2A}

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-18T03:09:36.052512Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ba797a77368098d024ab7847f05400d0324324edd696e8939aae890d6c03c0bb

Aliases

arxiv: 1310.5367 · arxiv_version: 1310.5367v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1310.5367 · pith_short_12: XJ4XU5ZWQCMN · pith_short_16: XJ4XU5ZWQCMNAJFL · pith_short_8: XJ4XU5ZW

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/XJ4XU5ZWQCMNAJFLPBD7AVAA2A \
  | 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: ba797a77368098d024ab7847f05400d0324324edd696e8939aae890d6c03c0bb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9b3727ac635c57037288a14746ca1a722e192eecef48401470d4fe61ad6aec32",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DM",
    "submitted_at": "2013-10-20T20:15:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "00c7786a7b933f21e8e1b7dd3cb1fdba8553c84ee4e11217a47e46fce9520b28"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1310.5367",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}