Pith Number

pith:WA3PVFWJ

pith:2016:WA3PVFWJCL25DYHZSR3ZSGJYZW

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Hopsets with Constant Hopbound, and Applications to Approximate Shortest Paths

Michael Elkin, Ofer Neiman

arxiv:1605.04538 v1 · 2016-05-15 · cs.DS

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WA3PVFWJCL25DYHZSR3ZSGJYZW}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T01:14:46.915556Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b036fa96c912f5d1e0f99477991938cd8826949ce8e025b5a3b396d2326eb79b

Aliases

arxiv: 1605.04538 · arxiv_version: 1605.04538v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1605.04538 · pith_short_12: WA3PVFWJCL25 · pith_short_16: WA3PVFWJCL25DYHZ · pith_short_8: WA3PVFWJ

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/WA3PVFWJCL25DYHZSR3ZSGJYZW \
  | 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: b036fa96c912f5d1e0f99477991938cd8826949ce8e025b5a3b396d2326eb79b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c06af8a2ff055188ffe8692e81a00f49a165e36ba9acbc24eca193ecf7463e3c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2016-05-15T12:56:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9e6a4edefbd918a72f2ff6bd3b701c50ed9963fbae357263ba177b176f3ebef2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1605.04538",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}