Pith Number

pith:OLPJEH3Z

pith:2014:OLPJEH3ZDD3D5DRPIXHREY5HSV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the Meeting Time for Two Random Walks on a Regular Graph

Bhaskar Krishnamachari, Yizhen Zhang, Zihan Tan

arxiv:1408.2005 v1 · 2014-08-09 · math.PR · cs.DM · math.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OLPJEH3ZDD3D5DRPIXHREY5HSV}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T02:45:30.790464Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

72de921f7918f63e8e2f45cf1263a79560a7e16aa312c1371ae6d9a8506e70af

Aliases

arxiv: 1408.2005 · arxiv_version: 1408.2005v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1408.2005 · pith_short_12: OLPJEH3ZDD3D · pith_short_16: OLPJEH3ZDD3D5DRP · pith_short_8: OLPJEH3Z

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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/OLPJEH3ZDD3D5DRPIXHREY5HSV \
  | 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: 72de921f7918f63e8e2f45cf1263a79560a7e16aa312c1371ae6d9a8506e70af

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "89252a8d6ee283039c5450c154146382ef21ee617f9a927b19590580cb96e2e4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DM",
      "math.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2014-08-09T01:49:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "77cdad3c3b3bc50e5fbd970337194c525d640713cf73f2f13e276acceaf13e94"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1408.2005",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}