Pith Number

pith:52CRIBOB

pith:2017:52CRIBOBMU2S3KAXGH7TYAWPX4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Which friends are more popular than you? Contact strength and the friendship paradox in social networks

Christopher M. Danforth, James P. Bagrow, Lewis Mitchell

arxiv:1703.06361 v1 · 2017-03-18 · cs.SI · cs.CY · physics.soc-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{52CRIBOBMU2S3KAXGH7TYAWPX4}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:48:23.149087Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ee851405c165352da81731ff3c02cfbf1ecda2d165e57e7edf37957f0f7be020

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.06361 · arxiv_version: 1703.06361v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.06361 · pith_short_12: 52CRIBOBMU2S · pith_short_16: 52CRIBOBMU2S3KAX · pith_short_8: 52CRIBOB

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/52CRIBOBMU2S3KAXGH7TYAWPX4 \
  | 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: ee851405c165352da81731ff3c02cfbf1ecda2d165e57e7edf37957f0f7be020

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6acdebd26f52f9f17b9a45b79a4f1da511572bb0c12b44a17738665210453a0e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY",
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-18T22:50:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "73dd4e42ac164337f2de2a683cf9156b42dd36e6f649dfc56d209e3c29960e81"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.06361",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}