Pith Number

pith:6GSYYNDO

pith:2013:6GSYYNDOQGNZAHQX6A5QGGR7EO

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The Mesh of Civilizations and International Email Flows

Bogdan State, Ingmar Weber, Michael Macy, Patrick Park, Yelena Mejova

arxiv:1303.0045 v2 · 2013-02-28 · cs.SI · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6GSYYNDOQGNZAHQX6A5QGGR7EO}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T03:31:20.135671Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f1a58c346e819b901e17f03b031a3f23a18501979e1fc0f4ed866dd8b3704328

Aliases

arxiv: 1303.0045 · arxiv_version: 1303.0045v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1303.0045 · pith_short_12: 6GSYYNDOQGNZ · pith_short_16: 6GSYYNDOQGNZAHQX · pith_short_8: 6GSYYNDO

Agent API

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/6GSYYNDOQGNZAHQX6A5QGGR7EO \
  | 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: f1a58c346e819b901e17f03b031a3f23a18501979e1fc0f4ed866dd8b3704328

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2d3ef364bba1d791a3d599233bc331a7bfb1bdb17c47b232c83727154eafb7f8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2013-02-28T23:29:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "aa503c342c4b0b96dc4c03f4415609ba5279901703446ecc32c192b9e7d5ae85"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1303.0045",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}