Pith Number

pith:B5CF2MTA

pith:2005:B5CF2MTAIYG3OSHZLFA264ZND6

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A study of the edge-switching Markov-chain method for the generation of random graphs

Alexandre O. Stauffer, Valmir C. Barbosa

arxiv:cs/0512105 v2 · 2005-12-29 · cs.DM

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\pithnumber{B5CF2MTAIYG3OSHZLFA264ZND6}

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First computed	2026-05-18T04:19:03.446450Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0f445d3260460db748f95941af732d1fa43740f6f07c82f8b3426e3683efa147

Aliases

arxiv: cs/0512105 · arxiv_version: cs/0512105v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cs/0512105 · pith_short_12: B5CF2MTAIYG3 · pith_short_16: B5CF2MTAIYG3OSHZ · pith_short_8: B5CF2MTA

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/B5CF2MTAIYG3OSHZLFA264ZND6 \
  | 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: 0f445d3260460db748f95941af732d1fa43740f6f07c82f8b3426e3683efa147

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "260cebcb9021423a591ddc8d8659bc3d7ca3aa9c315ad59412b6808e1b73282f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DM",
    "submitted_at": "2005-12-29T18:37:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "abe1d6fb9799bee2896ee21377c4ba126b665c69d4f839340c553b14bee3e4c0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "cs/0512105",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}