Pith Number

pith:FSS5YHE4

pith:2012:FSS5YHE4DRCYVRWCNKHDTF5Q36

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Near-Optimal Random Walk Sampling in Distributed Networks

Anisur Rahaman Molla, Atish Das Sarma, Gopal Pandurangan

arxiv:1201.1363 v2 · 2012-01-06 · cs.DC · cs.DS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FSS5YHE4DRCYVRWCNKHDTF5Q36}

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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	2026-05-18T04:04:52.945196Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2ca5dc1c9c1c458ac6c26a8e3997b0dfa098a1669dc11690ee0badc7ccb8a28d

Aliases

arxiv: 1201.1363 · arxiv_version: 1201.1363v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1201.1363 · pith_short_12: FSS5YHE4DRCY · pith_short_16: FSS5YHE4DRCYVRWC · pith_short_8: FSS5YHE4

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/FSS5YHE4DRCYVRWCNKHDTF5Q36 \
  | 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: 2ca5dc1c9c1c458ac6c26a8e3997b0dfa098a1669dc11690ee0badc7ccb8a28d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e7d1324b1adb9b9f176bf064c8721856f0fc1d799ae5945ce1397381dc53fdc6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2012-01-06T08:16:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8d84e6745012589f9464f6169dd2210c3dc05e66547f1f1532fda6b87de56398"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1201.1363",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}