Pith Number

pith:5UN6OB6L

pith:2009:5UN6OB6LHSZTNQ5H3Q2LWBHJX2

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The Structure of Phonological Networks Across Multiple Languages

Michael S. Vitevitch, Samuel Arbesman, Steven H. Strogatz

arxiv:0903.0872 v1 · 2009-03-04 · physics.soc-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5UN6OB6LHSZTNQ5H3Q2LWBHJX2}

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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	2026-05-18T02:14:37.207410Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ed1be707cb3cb336c3a7dc34bb04e9beb2f1986585794922701ad8c709aa6bde

Aliases

arxiv: 0903.0872 · arxiv_version: 0903.0872v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0903.0872 · pith_short_12: 5UN6OB6LHSZT · pith_short_16: 5UN6OB6LHSZTNQ5H · pith_short_8: 5UN6OB6L

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/5UN6OB6LHSZTNQ5H3Q2LWBHJX2 \
  | 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: ed1be707cb3cb336c3a7dc34bb04e9beb2f1986585794922701ad8c709aa6bde

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ba2c96558bdbf00aada695d1f5f4c27f048bde18619c8f52a49b596c85aec747",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2009-03-04T22:36:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f5b9d49182a1873e0b16792d81cdeca59a763bcadc8457cced552638d5f27d6d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0903.0872",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}