Pith Number

pith:E2WUVZ5U

pith:2026:E2WUVZ5UIEGRJ7GRI2K3GCVOCB

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Distortion of Metric Voting with Bounded Randomness

D. D. Gao, Kangning Wang, Prasanna Ramakrishnan, Ziyi Cai

arxiv:2602.08871 v2 · 2026-02-09 · cs.GT · cs.DM · cs.DS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{E2WUVZ5UIEGRJ7GRI2K3GCVOCB}

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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	2026-08-04T01:59:06.123646Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

26ad4ae7b4410d14fcd14695b30aae106200ca833f23076936465d29492d0f19

Aliases

arxiv: 2602.08871 · arxiv_version: 2602.08871v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2602.08871 · pith_short_12: E2WUVZ5UIEGR · pith_short_16: E2WUVZ5UIEGRJ7GR · pith_short_8: E2WUVZ5U

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/E2WUVZ5UIEGRJ7GRI2K3GCVOCB \
  | 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: 26ad4ae7b4410d14fcd14695b30aae106200ca833f23076936465d29492d0f19

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "244948f64590c7e4d7da7d188d67ccd14c3e551e5f98c196c6ad2b5f9bcd987b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DM",
      "cs.DS"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2026-02-09T16:33:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e390abe648070075a955f4d279d3ad44de96dc0b72748ec5fde5af43c118e09f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2602.08871",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}