Pith Number

pith:2HW5WMTC

pith:2016:2HW5WMTCSOYXJP2VYUGJPJYLTC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Distributed Multilevel Force-directed Algorithm

Alessio Arleo, Fabrizio Montecchiani, Giuseppe Liotta, Walter Didimo

arxiv:1608.08522 v2 · 2016-08-30 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2HW5WMTCSOYXJP2VYUGJPJYLTC}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T01:06:24.004064Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d1eddb326293b174bf55c50c97a70b98b2d65453022a1de3706e91d7e58db431

Aliases

arxiv: 1608.08522 · arxiv_version: 1608.08522v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1608.08522 · pith_short_12: 2HW5WMTCSOYX · pith_short_16: 2HW5WMTCSOYXJP2V · pith_short_8: 2HW5WMTC

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/2HW5WMTCSOYXJP2VYUGJPJYLTC \
  | 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: d1eddb326293b174bf55c50c97a70b98b2d65453022a1de3706e91d7e58db431

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2b0e8682ad9fe06aed281cb9d911bafd4608012b480cc38d2b62cf2c80655263",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2016-08-30T15:57:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a33ab489dbc9fbe2730807f9aa3b29a399d2948236a3741eed97f1cf1713a652"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1608.08522",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}