Pith Number

pith:YPVNBVIA

pith:2024:YPVNBVIAX2AT5XXBPLZF7WVUTZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

New Lower Bounds in Merlin-Arthur Communication and Graph Streaming Verification

Prantar Ghosh, Vihan Shah

arxiv:2401.06378 v1 · 2024-01-12 · cs.DS

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YPVNBVIAX2AT5XXBPLZF7WVUTZ}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-05T07:32:49.897265Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c3ead0d500be813edee17af25fdab49e453899ee87830e39c9704563f3b8f000

Aliases

arxiv: 2401.06378 · arxiv_version: 2401.06378v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2401.06378 · pith_short_12: YPVNBVIAX2AT · pith_short_16: YPVNBVIAX2AT5XXB · pith_short_8: YPVNBVIA

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/YPVNBVIAX2AT5XXBPLZF7WVUTZ \
  | 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: c3ead0d500be813edee17af25fdab49e453899ee87830e39c9704563f3b8f000

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2e5a9e0c77b61e4b669f2a0d822eb09491d8c1173bc99a65416ed5688bd1bd78",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2024-01-12T05:01:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d35060a54cf72c73d23140f88d869acc342c844e24c957d46330789f1c140d52"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2401.06378",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}