Pith Number

pith:N25GD3V2

pith:2019:N25GD3V2AAPV225MXZHJ4ZDM2L

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A Random Walk based Trust Ranking in Distributed Systems

Alexander Stannat, Johan Pouwelse

arxiv:1903.05900 v1 · 2019-03-14 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{N25GD3V2AAPV225MXZHJ4ZDM2L}

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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	2026-05-17T23:51:15.830477Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6eba61eeba001f5d6bacbe4e9e646cd2c22c55483107e340615e89a43ede3ca6

Aliases

arxiv: 1903.05900 · arxiv_version: 1903.05900v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1903.05900 · pith_short_12: N25GD3V2AAPV · pith_short_16: N25GD3V2AAPV225M · pith_short_8: N25GD3V2

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/N25GD3V2AAPV225MXZHJ4ZDM2L \
  | 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: 6eba61eeba001f5d6bacbe4e9e646cd2c22c55483107e340615e89a43ede3ca6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "166935320d64745acc3370bf92635a59caf573e9e851727ac416d8dec0663486",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2019-03-14T10:29:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c0b6464d58022696bacfd015bc3ec5b4b0e74f7f088c9df5bbe0d517c6da2a43"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1903.05900",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}