Pith Number

pith:RV4ZT2LJ

pith:2012:RV4ZT2LJZ6BWIEMRE5THOJC27G

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A k-shell decomposition method for weighted networks

Antonios Garas, Frank Schweitzer, Shlomo Havlin

arxiv:1205.3720 v2 · 2012-05-16 · physics.soc-ph · cs.SI

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\pithnumber{RV4ZT2LJZ6BWIEMRE5THOJC27G}

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First computed	2026-05-18T03:47:00.842195Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8d7999e969cf83641191276677245af9b2bee624ef52a654024c8fa8991caea9

Aliases

arxiv: 1205.3720 · arxiv_version: 1205.3720v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1205.3720 · pith_short_12: RV4ZT2LJZ6BW · pith_short_16: RV4ZT2LJZ6BWIEMR · pith_short_8: RV4ZT2LJ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RV4ZT2LJZ6BWIEMRE5THOJC27G \
  | 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: 8d7999e969cf83641191276677245af9b2bee624ef52a654024c8fa8991caea9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6deef5b379e7f44c700af39d253e192be0c2a9c1e5bb79d704ffde2faac9a845",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-05-16T16:11:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ad608d3ba177c99ece22eb6b25d6a6dc922cd8c3ee6c4c1a520b07a0506c6239"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1205.3720",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}