Pith Number

pith:YBXZNKTE

pith:2019:YBXZNKTEFTVXVCQ5EQBXPMNS3Q

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Competitive Analysis with a Sample and the Secretary Problem

Danny Raz, David Naori, Haim Kaplan

arxiv:1907.05350 v1 · 2019-07-11 · cs.DS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YBXZNKTEFTVXVCQ5EQBXPMNS3Q}

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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	2026-05-17T23:40:50.614595Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c06f96aa642ceb7a8a1d240377b1b2dc2467dc4d5bb1ed012e4bbe5eab816754

Aliases

arxiv: 1907.05350 · arxiv_version: 1907.05350v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1907.05350 · pith_short_12: YBXZNKTEFTVX · pith_short_16: YBXZNKTEFTVXVCQ5 · pith_short_8: YBXZNKTE

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/YBXZNKTEFTVXVCQ5EQBXPMNS3Q \
  | 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: c06f96aa642ceb7a8a1d240377b1b2dc2467dc4d5bb1ed012e4bbe5eab816754

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a78b359720d4125a986bc3b3df333ead02353c7676cd6c0228ec9dace05a6747",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2019-07-11T16:18:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "43deee4ad293e2dcf1024cf3aa49b7f35867910cdb10649a06a4d39997e681e7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1907.05350",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}