Pith Number

pith:U3E4SLO2

pith:2026:U3E4SLO2JQ5BQ7HUK226RI7NZ2

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Consistent Identification of Top-$K$ Nodes in Noisy Networks

Eric D. Kolaczyk, Hui Shen

arxiv:2605.24734 v1 · 2026-05-23 · math.ST · stat.TH

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\pithnumber{U3E4SLO2JQ5BQ7HUK226RI7NZ2}

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First computed	2026-05-26T01:03:55.574974Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a6c9c92dda4c3a187cf456b5e8a3edce8d8bc61f7f8574e50fc880b18bc6f944

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.24734 · arxiv_version: 2605.24734v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.24734 · pith_short_12: U3E4SLO2JQ5B · pith_short_16: U3E4SLO2JQ5BQ7HU · pith_short_8: U3E4SLO2

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/U3E4SLO2JQ5BQ7HUK226RI7NZ2 \
  | 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: a6c9c92dda4c3a187cf456b5e8a3edce8d8bc61f7f8574e50fc880b18bc6f944

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "eb638f3e808e49b8408231c185016856c8c5580f889cdcbd4330a419788642ee",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-23T20:59:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b4e6292c7d3bad48e57f03d2a21dadd2c208c5180e90bec539a1b038ef57d290"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.24734",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}