Pith Number

pith:DIMFHPPW

pith:2026:DIMFHPPWLBYTLY56KUBAB2F5O3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Leveraging Population Dynamics to Steer Efficient Search in Large-Scale Combinatorial Optimization

Nikhat Khan, Nikhil Shukla, Ridge Redding

arxiv:2606.25203 v1 · 2026-06-23 · physics.comp-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DIMFHPPWLBYTLY56KUBAB2F5O3}

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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	2026-06-25T00:18:20.750239Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1a1853bdf6587135e3be550200e8bd76d1cb436eb4763c8425755669753d623c

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.25203 · arxiv_version: 2606.25203v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.25203 · pith_short_12: DIMFHPPWLBYT · pith_short_16: DIMFHPPWLBYTLY56 · pith_short_8: DIMFHPPW

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/DIMFHPPWLBYTLY56KUBAB2F5O3 \
  | 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: 1a1853bdf6587135e3be550200e8bd76d1cb436eb4763c8425755669753d623c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "55b05f67a1234a4d1fbf43e1817d11b680f7466f019f65699ed52c9a2da0f832",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.comp-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-23T21:51:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9a81d0e87b02d0c4b3314f4b02de0beec30c536a28db423ec9b726778ddd5717"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.25203",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}