Pith Number

pith:JWX5FJCK

pith:2015:JWX5FJCKGV7RQLSNZNUCOO4MXN

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Catching the head, tail, and everything in between: a streaming algorithm for the degree distribution

Andrew McGregor, C. Seshadhri, Olivia Simpson

arxiv:1506.02574 v2 · 2015-06-08 · cs.DS

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JWX5FJCKGV7RQLSNZNUCOO4MXN}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:25:56.511822Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4dafd2a44a357f182e4dcb68273b8cbb48d4dd7ce72d82e4db213c1bd3c81c07

Aliases

arxiv: 1506.02574 · arxiv_version: 1506.02574v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1506.02574 · pith_short_12: JWX5FJCKGV7R · pith_short_16: JWX5FJCKGV7RQLSN · pith_short_8: JWX5FJCK

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/JWX5FJCKGV7RQLSNZNUCOO4MXN \
  | 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: 4dafd2a44a357f182e4dcb68273b8cbb48d4dd7ce72d82e4db213c1bd3c81c07

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "40ac9815c50d05ab6ba5114891494d452c24d44d3b94835df0438724fe023c03",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2015-06-08T16:27:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "162b60fe3098f9c1d5accca9f1fd98ceece8a405d0f222e2ff905e6949864851"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1506.02574",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}