Pith Number

pith:4YQACLFV

pith:2017:4YQACLFVBHUYF3GXJELGOAC2YU

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Personalizing Path-Specific Effects

Ilya Shpitser, Sourjya Sarkar

arxiv:1709.03862 v1 · 2017-09-12 · stat.ME

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4YQACLFVBHUYF3GXJELGOAC2YU}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T00:35:29.198377Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e620012cb509e982ecd7491667005ac5115d602e0e737935722b172c6766fff9

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.03862 · arxiv_version: 1709.03862v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.03862 · pith_short_12: 4YQACLFVBHUY · pith_short_16: 4YQACLFVBHUYF3GX · pith_short_8: 4YQACLFV

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/4YQACLFVBHUYF3GXJELGOAC2YU \
  | 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: e620012cb509e982ecd7491667005ac5115d602e0e737935722b172c6766fff9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "50025d56c58f02aef12bba1477b20c665a155d64788574dcd7ec3dbb451785f1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-12T14:30:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d32befd24dbab445c15de5af273942b43b6393497c0e378cbfda88819a5c3c6f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.03862",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}