Pith Number

pith:VPIHEHTF

pith:2015:VPIHEHTF3NCZ66NZ2ABGDEUG2K

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Localization in Seeded PageRank

David F. Gleich, Huda Nassar, Kyle Kloster

arxiv:1509.00016 v4 · 2015-08-31 · cs.SI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VPIHEHTF3NCZ66NZ2ABGDEUG2K}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T00:44:10.015378Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

abd0721e65db459f79b9d002619286d2b56a07f50d062f96319de536789521fb

Aliases

arxiv: 1509.00016 · arxiv_version: 1509.00016v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1509.00016 · pith_short_12: VPIHEHTF3NCZ · pith_short_16: VPIHEHTF3NCZ66NZ · pith_short_8: VPIHEHTF

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/VPIHEHTF3NCZ66NZ2ABGDEUG2K \
  | 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: abd0721e65db459f79b9d002619286d2b56a07f50d062f96319de536789521fb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0c18bf085fb518113e52916667141ff17d9cafa4d266f3e76250e84af6c6c0a5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2015-08-31T20:10:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cee0929b87fb47bae73af4c5bb885af4d4dab96e5905d955af099e64e7dd92eb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1509.00016",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}