Pith Number

pith:KLFRJ6YV

pith:2002:KLFRJ6YVE7Q7US5ZRYVGBBS6LF

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Simple Strategies for Large Zero-Sum Games with Applications to Complexity Theory

Neal E. Young, Richard Lipton

arxiv:cs/0205035 v1 · 2002-05-18 · cs.CC · cs.DM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KLFRJ6YVE7Q7US5ZRYVGBBS6LF}

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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	2026-05-18T01:59:53.981238Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

52cb14fb1527e1fa4bb98e2a60865e597a1b26b35abb8f4bb73f90ea97c87e89

Aliases

arxiv: cs/0205035 · arxiv_version: cs/0205035v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cs/0205035 · pith_short_12: KLFRJ6YVE7Q7 · pith_short_16: KLFRJ6YVE7Q7US5Z · pith_short_8: KLFRJ6YV

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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/KLFRJ6YVE7Q7US5ZRYVGBBS6LF \
  | 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: 52cb14fb1527e1fa4bb98e2a60865e597a1b26b35abb8f4bb73f90ea97c87e89

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e7a1a048fa9788dccecc343ba2d40beaa389ee6ef77456530ea81eb395312370",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DM"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CC",
    "submitted_at": "2002-05-18T03:41:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "dec117448d5cbc0e3cd99730f3243659541d79b712d08e814a6a923a589bbf9e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "cs/0205035",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}