Pith Number

pith:5V4WRCIY

pith:2006:5V4WRCIYLRWIEDEHV6OGCMBDM3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Random Walks on Directed Networks: the Case of PageRank

Alessandro Flammini, Santo Fortunato

arxiv:physics/0604203 v2 · 2006-04-25 · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5V4WRCIYLRWIEDEHV6OGCMBDM3}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:38:07.050014Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ed796889185c6c820c87af9c61302366f57b520edac9fcca412d8622a4be1023

Aliases

arxiv: physics/0604203 · arxiv_version: physics/0604203v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.physics/0604203 · pith_short_12: 5V4WRCIYLRWI · pith_short_16: 5V4WRCIYLRWIEDEH · pith_short_8: 5V4WRCIY

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/5V4WRCIYLRWIEDEHV6OGCMBDM3 \
  | 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: ed796889185c6c820c87af9c61302366f57b520edac9fcca412d8622a4be1023

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dd6491f82d8579c78d1ae09b6b1f524be4d3d43157c78db4aaa81e1a1a6493b7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2006-04-25T17:16:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6f2a92ddd062f554736660524258c1c5235bddf8863dd3aecd6390d796bd0c5a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "physics/0604203",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}