Pith Number

pith:42EN3VU5

pith:2010:42EN3VU5P2QHBUYXLBZ44MCAFO

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A Distributed Clustering Algorithm for Dynamic Networks

Alain Bui, Devan Sohier, Laurence Pilard, Thibault Bernard

arxiv:1011.2953 v1 · 2010-11-12 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{42EN3VU5P2QHBUYXLBZ44MCAFO}

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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	2026-05-18T04:36:07.679823Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e688ddd69d7ea070d3175873ce30402bb632fb9fb6e97f06dacaaf50ecd62d28

Aliases

arxiv: 1011.2953 · arxiv_version: 1011.2953v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1011.2953 · pith_short_12: 42EN3VU5P2QH · pith_short_16: 42EN3VU5P2QHBUYX · pith_short_8: 42EN3VU5

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/42EN3VU5P2QHBUYXLBZ44MCAFO \
  | 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: e688ddd69d7ea070d3175873ce30402bb632fb9fb6e97f06dacaaf50ecd62d28

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f6497490ff875d650780338337d4f0c8e33525fc7342e3c023ad0c4d013c63a4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2010-11-12T15:35:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d744f017aa1899291b767a80cfc2004c028c2bef1b7ae4ef44afac3d3c9731af"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1011.2953",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}