Pith Number

pith:APZMYHS6

pith:2016:APZMYHS6TX4QQLRM6NTTJNXWJ4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Faster Algorithms for Computing the Stationary Distribution, Simulating Random Walks, and More

Aaron Sidford, Adrian Vladu, John Peebles, Jon Kelner, Michael B. Cohen, Richard Peng

arxiv:1608.03270 v2 · 2016-08-10 · cs.DS

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{APZMYHS6TX4QQLRM6NTTJNXWJ4}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T01:00:33.854779Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

03f2cc1e5e9df9082e2cf36734b6f64f0d72599815fc1506471e573c5ab98637

Aliases

arxiv: 1608.03270 · arxiv_version: 1608.03270v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1608.03270 · pith_short_12: APZMYHS6TX4Q · pith_short_16: APZMYHS6TX4QQLRM · pith_short_8: APZMYHS6

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/APZMYHS6TX4QQLRM6NTTJNXWJ4 \
  | 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: 03f2cc1e5e9df9082e2cf36734b6f64f0d72599815fc1506471e573c5ab98637

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dd7c992c09c1f4351acbe5edb9f40a970e49390cfe33a9ffa1acef24de66a611",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2016-08-10T19:58:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3838011efb92f438754e7fdae9bdd8df8a4e49fbbbbad3b1cf9f1d3ed2e902be"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1608.03270",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}