Pith Number

pith:MQKPX2LE

pith:2018:MQKPX2LEEKVWYGLIB2FKU4EPVT

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Colored range closest-pair problem under general distance functions

Jie Xue

arxiv:1807.09977 v1 · 2018-07-26 · cs.CG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MQKPX2LEEKVWYGLIB2FKU4EPVT}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:09:45.840679Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6414fbe96422ab6c19680e8aaa708facd3a3f8f61b2d0ecac02210c1c45e1280

Aliases

arxiv: 1807.09977 · arxiv_version: 1807.09977v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1807.09977 · pith_short_12: MQKPX2LEEKVW · pith_short_16: MQKPX2LEEKVWYGLI · pith_short_8: MQKPX2LE

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MQKPX2LEEKVWYGLIB2FKU4EPVT \
  | 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: 6414fbe96422ab6c19680e8aaa708facd3a3f8f61b2d0ecac02210c1c45e1280

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b99264315d03596ded53b6ac45df525dd8ee7b169b55911e9a495df6514c2202",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CG",
    "submitted_at": "2018-07-26T07:01:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5f0db6fc52ea5c14cac995cd7a3cffac18cd42ad5346e0cb47bb2ea0e0b4cdde"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1807.09977",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}