Pith Number

pith:243GA2HD

pith:2017:243GA2HD5GJNB4T264NJZSTG6K

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The scaling structure of the global road network

Andrea Giometto, Andrea Rinaldo, Emanuele Strano, Enrico Bertuzzo, Peter J. Mucha, Saray Shai

arxiv:1706.01401 v2 · 2017-06-05 · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{243GA2HD5GJNB4T264NJZSTG6K}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T00:33:02.002087Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d7366068e3e992d0f27af71a9cca66f2bc57b555c8b9a85f453552ff367448b7

Aliases

arxiv: 1706.01401 · arxiv_version: 1706.01401v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1706.01401 · pith_short_12: 243GA2HD5GJN · pith_short_16: 243GA2HD5GJNB4T2 · pith_short_8: 243GA2HD

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/243GA2HD5GJNB4T264NJZSTG6K \
  | 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: d7366068e3e992d0f27af71a9cca66f2bc57b555c8b9a85f453552ff367448b7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "eb3e30b8973b88922938f3f04470318482b3e3e927ea78baf644af49aec2048f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-06-05T16:17:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2f12b3557ede45fe029ea368b7518ae55712e943ba7e8f6261eb18eba059369f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1706.01401",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}