Pith Number

pith:UZWIKQB6

pith:2023:UZWIKQB6YN7HYUDCKRSBZXQMHT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Ellipsoid Fitting Up to a Constant

Aaron Potechin, Jeff Xu, Jun-Ting Hsieh, Pravesh K. Kothari

arxiv:2307.05954 v1 · 2023-07-12 · math.PR · cs.CC · cs.DS

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UZWIKQB6YN7HYUDCKRSBZXQMHT}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-07-05T06:30:14.623726Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a66c85403ec37e7c506254641cde0c3cf92022695fed8b2a8dac24764d3aff61

Aliases

arxiv: 2307.05954 · arxiv_version: 2307.05954v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2307.05954 · pith_short_12: UZWIKQB6YN7H · pith_short_16: UZWIKQB6YN7HYUDC · pith_short_8: UZWIKQB6

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/UZWIKQB6YN7HYUDCKRSBZXQMHT \
  | 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: a66c85403ec37e7c506254641cde0c3cf92022695fed8b2a8dac24764d3aff61

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9f5a8bae55708c7a503067e4628de63d993a1b045f54e933ec3a4f89e8a79cc2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CC",
      "cs.DS"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2023-07-12T06:56:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "70dd826caff5c5ede6830af5630e844105e0cbc9c1942c748fbaec238e57cb74"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2307.05954",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}