Pith Number

pith:E5S4EVNJ

pith:2017:E5S4EVNJTWLTYTPAWS62XZQJPJ

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A Resistance Distance-Based Approach for Optimal Leader Selection in Noisy Consensus Networks

Stacy Patterson, Yuhao Yi, Zhongzhi Zhang

arxiv:1708.06873 v1 · 2017-08-23 · math.OC · cs.SY

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\pithnumber{E5S4EVNJTWLTYTPAWS62XZQJPJ}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:36:48.993229Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2765c255a99d973c4de0b4bdabe6097a76ea69249b3ecc8e70bb8528e6b3f6dd

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.06873 · arxiv_version: 1708.06873v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.06873 · pith_short_12: E5S4EVNJTWLT · pith_short_16: E5S4EVNJTWLTYTPA · pith_short_8: E5S4EVNJ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/E5S4EVNJTWLTYTPAWS62XZQJPJ \
  | 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: 2765c255a99d973c4de0b4bdabe6097a76ea69249b3ecc8e70bb8528e6b3f6dd

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1b232f3053e5b751446954479c7f6ad2a581e0d36f11470249125f7b3797abee",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SY"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-23T02:46:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9874fbc0b40589f6d02a57a29a4114b4900842cfdb86339f9935b57747dd8c4e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.06873",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}