Pith Number

pith:P3HSF4JE

pith:2016:P3HSF4JEYL5KG6DDRX46QNVIDM

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On Finding Small Sets that Influence Large Networks

Adele Anna Rescigno, Gennaro Cordasco, Luisa Gargano

arxiv:1610.04838 v1 · 2016-10-16 · cs.DS · cs.SI · math.CO · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{P3HSF4JEYL5KG6DDRX46QNVIDM}

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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	2026-05-18T01:02:06.931762Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7ecf22f124c2faa378638df9e836a81b0ff96bd340d096c879b6af9d18cd1204

Aliases

arxiv: 1610.04838 · arxiv_version: 1610.04838v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1610.04838 · pith_short_12: P3HSF4JEYL5K · pith_short_16: P3HSF4JEYL5KG6DD · pith_short_8: P3HSF4JE

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/P3HSF4JEYL5KG6DDRX46QNVIDM \
  | 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: 7ecf22f124c2faa378638df9e836a81b0ff96bd340d096c879b6af9d18cd1204

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "344bda9adfc5ad96fe996f6e982487ee5e9da7618273a32d0a05234f1a81e315",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SI",
      "math.CO",
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2016-10-16T10:08:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "acefe032bbecc3dd1441aa65e92c617b52c68302f8169b57842d9c8459c8a926"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1610.04838",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}