Pith Number

pith:VLIG5TDX

pith:2016:VLIG5TDXZOTMMQY3U4NCPLMNTM

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Measuring and Maximizing Influence via Random Walk in Social Activity Networks

Hong Xie, John C. S. Lui, Pengpeng Zhao, Yinlong Xu, Yongkun Li, Zhiyong Wu

arxiv:1602.03966 v2 · 2016-02-12 · cs.SI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VLIG5TDXZOTMMQY3U4NCPLMNTM}

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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	2026-05-18T00:53:12.425399Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aad06ecc77cba6c6431ba71a27ad8d9b353c080a8fb4235c2fdcbc613690db6c

Aliases

arxiv: 1602.03966 · arxiv_version: 1602.03966v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1602.03966 · pith_short_12: VLIG5TDXZOTM · pith_short_16: VLIG5TDXZOTMMQY3 · pith_short_8: VLIG5TDX

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VLIG5TDXZOTMMQY3U4NCPLMNTM \
  | 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: aad06ecc77cba6c6431ba71a27ad8d9b353c080a8fb4235c2fdcbc613690db6c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9b0d797a032ebde3ac487cafb450bebcc98a22ec0814f76e3e37416ac44e6b1b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2016-02-12T05:40:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0224e3946111a48150b2f98f84ddcd435ee8b2829180c36c0b4ad76e1d7d6bf9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1602.03966",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}