Pith Number

pith:KLFNIU2J

pith:2017:KLFNIU2JYDV3CYUU3OQV476XEV

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A Bag-of-Paths Node Criticality Measure

Bertrand Lebichot, Marco Saerens

arxiv:1705.08720 v1 · 2017-05-24 · cs.SI · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KLFNIU2JYDV3CYUU3OQV476XEV}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:43:44.445418Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

52cad45349c0ebb16294dba15e7fd72546a45939a83c891891a08edf1c54d760

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.08720 · arxiv_version: 1705.08720v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.08720 · pith_short_12: KLFNIU2JYDV3 · pith_short_16: KLFNIU2JYDV3CYUU · pith_short_8: KLFNIU2J

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/KLFNIU2JYDV3CYUU3OQV476XEV \
  | 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: 52cad45349c0ebb16294dba15e7fd72546a45939a83c891891a08edf1c54d760

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5838b75156e39b06cc970167605e68f189cddb4eaae623bded6509f8dc45b232",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-24T12:22:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5f0cb4915baf13a0031484e5505865384e6908ca703208229a3eeb87f7b236a8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.08720",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}