Pith Number

pith:5VTW2F4M

pith:2020:5VTW2F4ML4FVL7ZUSZDWKXRHE3

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The network structure of scientific revolutions

Ann S. Blevins, Dale Zhou, Danielle S. Bassett, David M. Lydon-Staley, Harang Ju, Judith Kaplan, Julio R. Tuma

arxiv:2010.08381 v2 · 2020-10-16 · cs.DL · physics.hist-ph

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\pithnumber{5VTW2F4ML4FVL7ZUSZDWKXRHE3}

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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.

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T01:58:43.224484Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ed676d178c5f0b55ff349647655e2726c2e6957a07c35bc98510801a01ec6836

Aliases

arxiv: 2010.08381 · arxiv_version: 2010.08381v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2010.08381 · pith_short_12: 5VTW2F4ML4FV · pith_short_16: 5VTW2F4ML4FVL7ZU · pith_short_8: 5VTW2F4M

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/5VTW2F4ML4FVL7ZUSZDWKXRHE3 \
  | 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: ed676d178c5f0b55ff349647655e2726c2e6957a07c35bc98510801a01ec6836

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "14a76d0962f7e1430b39741fa6c607f009b1b2a172ae2c7396343c412a08b1a4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.hist-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2020-10-16T13:32:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5c56f764e3ab4c9561819c99c103cc492b67172678502d301a589784cdd27e93"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2010.08381",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}