Pith Number

pith:BLTWL6JX

pith:2014:BLTWL6JX2TLIUFVVDDZ4R6R5YS

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How to select the largest k elements from evolving data?

Jialin Zhang, Qin Huang, Xiaoming Sun, Xingwu Liu

arxiv:1412.8164 v1 · 2014-12-28 · cs.DS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BLTWL6JX2TLIUFVVDDZ4R6R5YS}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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	2026-05-18T02:30:23.910261Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0ae765f937d4d68a16b518f3c8fa3dc4ab735b96c0507fdcdd6f330143d31ef7

Aliases

arxiv: 1412.8164 · arxiv_version: 1412.8164v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1412.8164 · pith_short_12: BLTWL6JX2TLI · pith_short_16: BLTWL6JX2TLIUFVV · pith_short_8: BLTWL6JX

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/BLTWL6JX2TLIUFVVDDZ4R6R5YS \
  | 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: 0ae765f937d4d68a16b518f3c8fa3dc4ab735b96c0507fdcdd6f330143d31ef7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "99f8c5255cce41af07eb14731b9254d37dab1f52d381eb73bd272e2610f34a45",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2014-12-28T13:26:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c535f476dfca2587acafae40d3b2971b585030113b15c0a1ea827b25d1f74e0f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1412.8164",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}