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pith:BOF3S6BV

pith:2023:BOF3S6BVBALTE6E5PUCET3W466

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Edge Addition and the Change in Kemeny's Constant

John McAlister, Stephen Kirkland, Xiaohong Zhang, Yuqiao Li

arxiv:2306.04005 v2 · 2023-06-06 · math.CO

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The Derivative of Kemeny's Constant as a Centrality Measure in Undirected Graphs

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First computed	2026-07-05T10:07:00.499994Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0b8bb97835081732789d7d0449eedcf7877854f95d73934c0b5cb0cc71a83267

Aliases

arxiv: 2306.04005 · arxiv_version: 2306.04005v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2306.04005 · pith_short_12: BOF3S6BVBALT · pith_short_16: BOF3S6BVBALTE6E5 · pith_short_8: BOF3S6BV

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BOF3S6BVBALTE6E5PUCET3W466 \
  | 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: 0b8bb97835081732789d7d0449eedcf7877854f95d73934c0b5cb0cc71a83267

Canonical record JSON

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    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2023-06-06T20:35:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "99a08f495af7d294ccead2777f55c3b869a6e5b7be5c0a389502b33dc8f5448e"
  },
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  "source": {
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  }
}