Pith Number

pith:J5DQWW2E

pith:2016:J5DQWW2EAPWGLL43563YFFH4TU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the roots of the node reliability polynomial

Jason Brown, Lucas Mol

arxiv:1607.08496 v1 · 2016-07-28 · math.CO · math.CA · math.PR

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:40:19.613246Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4f470b5b4403ec65af9befb78294fc9d10cd11f8117f1fabb458b3d11902afa7

Aliases

arxiv: 1607.08496 · arxiv_version: 1607.08496v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1607.08496 · pith_short_12: J5DQWW2EAPWG · pith_short_16: J5DQWW2EAPWGLL43 · pith_short_8: J5DQWW2E

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/J5DQWW2EAPWGLL43563YFFH4TU \
  | 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: 4f470b5b4403ec65af9befb78294fc9d10cd11f8117f1fabb458b3d11902afa7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "091b9603273b24b442cda1db3eff52fbfecf0699a9c95ae957c08769f165970b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.CA",
      "math.PR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2016-07-28T15:12:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "880a98e708feb3989b666c3146207db623d8a678b3eaaa4c610435cc77f2559a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1607.08496",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}