Pith Number

pith:4TB2AFF4

pith:2018:4TB2AFF4NCA6B7Y5FUOOHIOAFZ

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Scalable Approximation Algorithm for Graph Summarization

Arif Zaman, Imdadullah Khan, Maham Anwar Beg, Muhammad Ahmad

arxiv:1806.03936 v1 · 2018-06-11 · cs.DS · cs.DM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4TB2AFF4NCA6B7Y5FUOOHIOAFZ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:13:41.479233Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e4c3a014bc6881e0ff1d2d1ce3a1c02e46982a3653269ff5a3bd2e5d45c21385

Aliases

arxiv: 1806.03936 · arxiv_version: 1806.03936v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1806.03936 · pith_short_12: 4TB2AFF4NCA6 · pith_short_16: 4TB2AFF4NCA6B7Y5 · pith_short_8: 4TB2AFF4

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/4TB2AFF4NCA6B7Y5FUOOHIOAFZ \
  | 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: e4c3a014bc6881e0ff1d2d1ce3a1c02e46982a3653269ff5a3bd2e5d45c21385

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f184b94b35935e50922213e693d5302246ffb16554bef975111152a67f9fc67a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DM"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2018-06-11T12:34:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "219003b3fa7c84b5656dceadeb063746a31ea725eb609081168ee5b2a8732f44"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1806.03936",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}