Pith Number

pith:HFNUQ5F4

pith:2017:HFNUQ5F4ZD5AMM2DMO47GXZBWS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Why is Kemeny's constant a constant?

Beatrice Meini, Dario Bini, Guy Latouche, Jeffrey J. Hunter, Peter G. Taylor

arxiv:1711.03313 v2 · 2017-11-09 · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HFNUQ5F4ZD5AMM2DMO47GXZBWS}

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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	2026-05-18T00:06:30.914111Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

395b4874bcc8fa06334363b9f35f21b4bd3700e92fd694a54ec98a06fa9a90c9

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.03313 · arxiv_version: 1711.03313v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.03313 · pith_short_12: HFNUQ5F4ZD5A · pith_short_16: HFNUQ5F4ZD5AMM2D · pith_short_8: HFNUQ5F4

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/HFNUQ5F4ZD5AMM2DMO47GXZBWS \
  | 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: 395b4874bcc8fa06334363b9f35f21b4bd3700e92fd694a54ec98a06fa9a90c9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b94287b8cd30dcecbc1499868df665da3198cc9da0384827cf5f36a2e41df03f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-09T10:17:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "51e781632158f01dec861d22736976bed666633e8e0debb40ef02b07ff75b9da"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.03313",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}