Pith Number

pith:46GC26YI

pith:2015:46GC26YIJ3IADBPKGIB274N4G5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Total Acquisition Number of the Randomly Weighted Path

Anant Godbole, Elizabeth Kelley, Emily Kurtz, Pawel Pralat, Yiguang Zhang

arxiv:1507.06019 v2 · 2015-07-22 · math.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{46GC26YIJ3IADBPKGIB274N4G5}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:21:13.230445Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e78c2d7b084ed00185ea3203aff1bc3778e33dfabd00314de4c71a4501ff909f

Aliases

arxiv: 1507.06019 · arxiv_version: 1507.06019v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1507.06019 · pith_short_12: 46GC26YIJ3IA · pith_short_16: 46GC26YIJ3IADBPK · pith_short_8: 46GC26YI

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/46GC26YIJ3IADBPKGIB274N4G5 \
  | 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: e78c2d7b084ed00185ea3203aff1bc3778e33dfabd00314de4c71a4501ff909f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f6578a3bb2d7ec12a04b885d3ac9f722258760cf107473fa1628f9fc394010ef",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2015-07-22T00:22:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6966bcdcad1de88786dd4a8d7be3bdf3de28de9cca80b2ef9fbdb1303098ed3d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1507.06019",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}