Pith Number

pith:NVEBJQHS

pith:2017:NVEBJQHSYFREGRG4QPNKYR2VZO

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A Communication-Efficient Distributed Data Structure for Top-k and k-Select Queries

Bj\"orn Feldkord, Felix Biermeier, Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide, Manuel Malatyali

arxiv:1709.07259 v1 · 2017-09-21 · cs.DS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NVEBJQHSYFREGRG4QPNKYR2VZO}

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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	2026-05-18T00:34:36.186228Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6d4814c0f2c1624344dc83daac4755cb90c68949c535158cfeae68c451b582e1

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.07259 · arxiv_version: 1709.07259v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.07259 · pith_short_12: NVEBJQHSYFRE · pith_short_16: NVEBJQHSYFREGRG4 · pith_short_8: NVEBJQHS

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NVEBJQHSYFREGRG4QPNKYR2VZO \
  | 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: 6d4814c0f2c1624344dc83daac4755cb90c68949c535158cfeae68c451b582e1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "489b7c3c6524a90b727c9c085b22835d12c08f0cd37082d142b802e86977b373",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-21T11:06:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "78afac94742eb0772a0a60d1ee8d9b8bf90acbbd598e7317efc56237ac10354d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.07259",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}