Pith Number

pith:3N6XOBBJ

pith:2017:3N6XOBBJJV2QO5FL63HQJEMP3J

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Memetic search for identifying critical nodes in sparse graphs

Fred Glover, Jin-Kao Hao, Yangming Zhou

arxiv:1705.04119 v2 · 2017-05-11 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3N6XOBBJJV2QO5FL63HQJEMP3J}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T00:33:32.067906Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

db7d7704294d750774abf6cf04918fda5c25addba0997d6ccdd31945c2f8ac9c

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.04119 · arxiv_version: 1705.04119v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.04119 · pith_short_12: 3N6XOBBJJV2Q · pith_short_16: 3N6XOBBJJV2QO5FL · pith_short_8: 3N6XOBBJ

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/3N6XOBBJJV2QO5FL63HQJEMP3J \
  | 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: db7d7704294d750774abf6cf04918fda5c25addba0997d6ccdd31945c2f8ac9c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b822312a6160625d3691bf5144472436d49c6f105d3776de3019bc2262086acd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-11T11:43:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a3a692eda3e6a943f5a501ae14729fb83891605b33f65bc3185b7b20d36edb02"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.04119",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}