Pith Number

pith:3GPWYODV

pith:2015:3GPWYODVEFDBHHBJ3WMKSHMASI

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Information Cascades in Feed-based Networks of Users with Limited Attention

Ananthram Swami, Boleslaw Szymanski, Gyorgy Korniss, Kevin S. Chan, Sameet Sreenivasan

arxiv:1508.06950 v1 · 2015-08-27 · physics.soc-ph · cs.SI

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T00:42:24.139718Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d99f6c38752146139c29dd98a91d80920e64dfe3e1f70eb4ff7f870cdb307469

Aliases

arxiv: 1508.06950 · arxiv_version: 1508.06950v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1508.06950 · pith_short_12: 3GPWYODVEFDB · pith_short_16: 3GPWYODVEFDBHHBJ · pith_short_8: 3GPWYODV

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/3GPWYODVEFDBHHBJ3WMKSHMASI \
  | 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: d99f6c38752146139c29dd98a91d80920e64dfe3e1f70eb4ff7f870cdb307469

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2a44d5d140bf66ea9c674508b71b2a2d6edb0801d99e3d42426640c497541a38",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2015-08-27T17:36:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "346bb2a3b7fddc860670d8952885908916fa0db47508bf3084666a0f973c91f1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1508.06950",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}