Pith Number

pith:YGSSWWFG

pith:2026:YGSSWWFGECFGFBS7RF2TRS3QNF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the Approximability of Boolean Max-$k$-CSP

Ainesh Bakshi

arxiv:2608.05331 v1 · 2026-08-05 · cs.CC · cs.DS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YGSSWWFGECFGFBS7RF2TRS3QNF}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-08-07T00:47:01.520215Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c1a52b58a6208a62865f897538cb706942dbd5c1e3094130b64e357c1fc3fcca

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.05331 · arxiv_version: 2608.05331v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.05331 · pith_short_12: YGSSWWFGECFG · pith_short_16: YGSSWWFGECFGFBS7 · pith_short_8: YGSSWWFG

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/YGSSWWFGECFGFBS7RF2TRS3QNF \
  | 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: c1a52b58a6208a62865f897538cb706942dbd5c1e3094130b64e357c1fc3fcca

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ba8c22fb4da1da8ccc6b8b95847f694dc80449e33281c784823228a31905a4ce",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CC",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-05T18:41:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7e8ffa00bfa05d38bd1380c5660e86a566ee7fdbbd6cac00ebd3960908ad4e50"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.05331",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}