Pith Number

pith:4S6U24JR

pith:2014:4S6U24JRZMD4GIFZRKCBYYUC6O

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

How to efficiently destroy a network with limited information

G. M. Viswanathan, L. R. da Silva, T. M. Vieira

arxiv:1411.2427 v1 · 2014-11-10 · physics.soc-ph · cs.SI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4S6U24JRZMD4GIFZRKCBYYUC6O}

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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	2026-05-18T02:38:07.473624Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e4bd4d7131cb07c320b98a841c6282f38cf1364f4db8126fbb6d3e8ad8f2dd53

Aliases

arxiv: 1411.2427 · arxiv_version: 1411.2427v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1411.2427 · pith_short_12: 4S6U24JRZMD4 · pith_short_16: 4S6U24JRZMD4GIFZ · pith_short_8: 4S6U24JR

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/4S6U24JRZMD4GIFZRKCBYYUC6O \
  | 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: e4bd4d7131cb07c320b98a841c6282f38cf1364f4db8126fbb6d3e8ad8f2dd53

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3cb233eda0f92ac8b7a2f73396f210bf91b24eefc9462231cb7c020d477e4887",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-11-10T13:54:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8fde4e07a4add7501510f66e7af1ff5ca1c72a7ebd022d289dd61c70b63699a8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1411.2427",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}