Pith Number

pith:VYGYVNMM

pith:2014:VYGYVNMMO4POJ5UTFBZZT3LYUP

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A Divide-and-Conquer Algorithm for Betweenness Centrality

Azer Bestavros, Dora Erdos, Evimaria Terzi, Vatche Ishakian

arxiv:1406.4173 v2 · 2014-06-16 · cs.DS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VYGYVNMMO4POJ5UTFBZZT3LYUP}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:57:23.612100Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ae0d8ab58c771ee4f693287399ed78a3d58947260ef04db1f3aca0f34c9d9c15

Aliases

arxiv: 1406.4173 · arxiv_version: 1406.4173v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1406.4173 · pith_short_12: VYGYVNMMO4PO · pith_short_16: VYGYVNMMO4POJ5UT · pith_short_8: VYGYVNMM

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/VYGYVNMMO4POJ5UTFBZZT3LYUP \
  | 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: ae0d8ab58c771ee4f693287399ed78a3d58947260ef04db1f3aca0f34c9d9c15

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bd951912941907f9e69058d4bc92df0fe9cc3697b653ee6e87754904e8863cc7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2014-06-16T21:18:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bbbdf3523728f74d4a74847db7035ddbb4b03651d4eb3737c16da03d3ab0d7e3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1406.4173",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}