Pith Number

pith:2YKYRHXT

pith:2015:2YKYRHXTP7FA5W5RZ4Y62RH2ZT

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Leveraging History for Faster Sampling of Online Social Networks

Gautam Das, Nan Zhang, Zhuojie Zhou

arxiv:1505.00079 v3 · 2015-05-01 · cs.SI · physics.soc-ph

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2YKYRHXTP7FA5W5RZ4Y62RH2ZT}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T02:16:19.874817Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d615889ef37fca0edbb1cf31ed44faccd327a2ee0b164e150c1c5bee15b173a8

Aliases

arxiv: 1505.00079 · arxiv_version: 1505.00079v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1505.00079 · pith_short_12: 2YKYRHXTP7FA · pith_short_16: 2YKYRHXTP7FA5W5R · pith_short_8: 2YKYRHXT

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/2YKYRHXTP7FA5W5RZ4Y62RH2ZT \
  | 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: d615889ef37fca0edbb1cf31ed44faccd327a2ee0b164e150c1c5bee15b173a8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5056938f4cd944275046bc8af24ec7523244fc88bf15329827dd69afc5f411e3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2015-05-01T03:08:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "416d0eefaf94ca8225896495fb1ea0e9385160f8109943dcc33b89b0b7ed4d7b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1505.00079",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}