Pith Number

pith:WMPWVGQ3

pith:2012:WMPWVGQ3HVZDSZPMTC5IR46TLE

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Developments in the theory of randomized shortest paths with a comparison of graph node distances

Ilkka Kivim\"aki, Marco Saerens, Masashi Shimbo

arxiv:1212.1666 v2 · 2012-12-07 · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WMPWVGQ3HVZDSZPMTC5IR46TLE}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T02:23:35.693906Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b31f6a9a1b3d723965ec98ba88f3d3590d7e3aff12cc0c0f4cf6d176bd028c76

Aliases

arxiv: 1212.1666 · arxiv_version: 1212.1666v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1212.1666 · pith_short_12: WMPWVGQ3HVZD · pith_short_16: WMPWVGQ3HVZDSZPM · pith_short_8: WMPWVGQ3

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/WMPWVGQ3HVZDSZPMTC5IR46TLE \
  | 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: b31f6a9a1b3d723965ec98ba88f3d3590d7e3aff12cc0c0f4cf6d176bd028c76

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "188909366e462534e4cf138a9f60b6109de3f3309cc4b8e090db85ab2b80fe6d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2012-12-07T17:51:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2db424e6bb3dddf76e2081b89b387a1ff0525d6dfb9c5e78ebb0593be7772bde"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1212.1666",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}