Pith Number

pith:HZNRPKL5

pith:2011:HZNRPKL52APVQTHKEZ5WL5IFHC

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Benefits of Bias: Towards Better Characterization of Network Sampling

Arun S. Maiya, Tanya Y. Berger-Wolf

arxiv:1109.3911 v1 · 2011-09-18 · cs.SI · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HZNRPKL52APVQTHKEZ5WL5IFHC}

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4 Citations open

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T04:12:45.605053Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3e5b17a97dd01f584cea267b65f5053881af5bc53bf83ae22cbf89c71654ad8a

Aliases

arxiv: 1109.3911 · arxiv_version: 1109.3911v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1109.3911 · pith_short_12: HZNRPKL52APV · pith_short_16: HZNRPKL52APVQTHK · pith_short_8: HZNRPKL5

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/HZNRPKL52APVQTHKEZ5WL5IFHC \
  | 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: 3e5b17a97dd01f584cea267b65f5053881af5bc53bf83ae22cbf89c71654ad8a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "72500b6004381ddface06e988a3e50675b151f8f4fcc77625e2652a8b3018477",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2011-09-18T21:14:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8a8f89ee57d08d2063e180090e6de712bbd7fc338501151b75da362255e0f1ab"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1109.3911",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}