Pith Number

pith:23TCMKP4

pith:2008:23TCMKP4ZIBQ55SZMOUNWGSXJA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Mapping change in large networks

C. T. Bergstrom, M. Rosvall

arxiv:0812.1242 v2 · 2008-12-05 · physics.soc-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{23TCMKP4ZIBQ55SZMOUNWGSXJA}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T04:39:50.491980Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d6e62629fcca030ef65963a8db1a57481fdddeda40b721ec293f62822a9ee7c1

Aliases

arxiv: 0812.1242 · arxiv_version: 0812.1242v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0812.1242 · pith_short_12: 23TCMKP4ZIBQ · pith_short_16: 23TCMKP4ZIBQ55SZ · pith_short_8: 23TCMKP4

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/23TCMKP4ZIBQ55SZMOUNWGSXJA \
  | 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: d6e62629fcca030ef65963a8db1a57481fdddeda40b721ec293f62822a9ee7c1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "27fe59ea6c3be12a9cf85c3e1fac36f1b59267db6bd92342e0e10069e91bbc87",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2008-12-05T22:58:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6c324b6e73c66986096c1074e1c45765d73f06d79520e7c1333773ba78acdfac"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0812.1242",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}