Pith Number

pith:KJZ34VSV

pith:2026:KJZ34VSVKS5ED7PUJ73GFEYY7W

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The price of incrementality in k-center clustering

L\'aszl\'o Kozma

arxiv:2606.08713 v1 · 2026-06-07 · cs.DS · cs.CG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KJZ34VSVKS5ED7PUJ73GFEYY7W}

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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	2026-06-09T01:05:48.037121Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5273be565554ba41fdf44ff6629318fdbd9ed3444c6d9b5688a3bfae1e53ee40

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.08713 · arxiv_version: 2606.08713v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.08713 · pith_short_12: KJZ34VSVKS5E · pith_short_16: KJZ34VSVKS5ED7PU · pith_short_8: KJZ34VSV

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/KJZ34VSVKS5ED7PUJ73GFEYY7W \
  | 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: 5273be565554ba41fdf44ff6629318fdbd9ed3444c6d9b5688a3bfae1e53ee40

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2c617f010babf576e2b3e4b31e7bbcf96477838dbb6385d81d1818a373e21ab0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-07T16:09:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "04c8562a6dde3e974e85d8daff8c63064dc6babb894e1b4004712495b5dfd52a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.08713",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}