Pith Number

pith:4BBASTGJ

pith:2014:4BBASTGJUOGMF4D2YXGDRQK3LP

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Election vs. Selection: Two Ways of Finding the Largest Node in a Graph

Andrzej Pelc, Avery Miller

arxiv:1411.1319 v1 · 2014-11-05 · cs.DC · cs.DS

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4BBASTGJUOGMF4D2YXGDRQK3LP}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T02:38:30.322588Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e042094cc9a38cc2f07ac5cc38c15b5bca8c7281fc2d28eb92f553cc617a83e9

Aliases

arxiv: 1411.1319 · arxiv_version: 1411.1319v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1411.1319 · pith_short_12: 4BBASTGJUOGM · pith_short_16: 4BBASTGJUOGMF4D2 · pith_short_8: 4BBASTGJ

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/4BBASTGJUOGMF4D2YXGDRQK3LP \
  | 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: e042094cc9a38cc2f07ac5cc38c15b5bca8c7281fc2d28eb92f553cc617a83e9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "aee57a27c09a878a1d853c426842f133a0a8ff32afeeeec1286af0e64d9e4ccd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2014-11-05T16:48:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "11c9c8f56ccea75ad6e8c8be91af6b42e94d53cc5d23470e236bf6dd0abf487b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1411.1319",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}