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pith:2015:EVUWPHXJMHKLGXTC5RCLXWKYE7
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Hitting Times in Markov Chains with Restart and their Application to Network Centrality

Alexey Piunovskiy, Konstantin Avrachenkov (NEO), Yi Zhang (imagine)

arxiv:1503.08548 v2 · 2015-03-30 · cs.PF · cs.NI · cs.SY

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Canonical hash

2569679ee961d4b35e62ec44bbd95827faa51d1e0a5ad4d11ef37234561b09b8

Aliases

arxiv: 1503.08548 · arxiv_version: 1503.08548v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1503.08548 · pith_short_12: EVUWPHXJMHKL · pith_short_16: EVUWPHXJMHKLGXTC · pith_short_8: EVUWPHXJ
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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/EVUWPHXJMHKLGXTC5RCLXWKYE7 \
  | 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: 2569679ee961d4b35e62ec44bbd95827faa51d1e0a5ad4d11ef37234561b09b8
Canonical record JSON
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