Pith Number

pith:E66CANIT

pith:2019:E66CANITOQX6S4XNOMW7HEHJH6

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Algorithmic Discrepancy Minimization

Jonathan Liu, Michael Whitmeyer

arxiv:1911.07417 v1 · 2019-11-18 · cs.DS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{E66CANITOQX6S4XNOMW7HEHJH6}

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4 Citations 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	2026-07-05T00:20:03.619805Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

27bc203513742fe972ed732df390e93f9aca7d1a826794df79778c6902cf1fd0

Aliases

arxiv: 1911.07417 · arxiv_version: 1911.07417v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1911.07417 · pith_short_12: E66CANITOQX6 · pith_short_16: E66CANITOQX6S4XN · pith_short_8: E66CANIT

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/E66CANITOQX6S4XNOMW7HEHJH6 \
  | 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: 27bc203513742fe972ed732df390e93f9aca7d1a826794df79778c6902cf1fd0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fd272748efabcf7746bdcef438b423bd36ce997061b8987bbb517d981baf5a88",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2019-11-18T04:10:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a194bb611b716018f4437c8e3cd582aa62b5b800d2421f859d24ae39096431af"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1911.07417",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}