Pith Number

pith:77DLQ5OV

pith:2018:77DLQ5OV2MCZ4XN73MPPGBCSEP

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Maximizing Welfare in Social Networks under a Utility Driven Influence Diffusion Model

Laks V.S. Lakshmanan, Prithu Banerjee, Wei Chen

arxiv:1807.02502 v2 · 2018-07-06 · cs.SI · econ.EM

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\pithnumber{77DLQ5OV2MCZ4XN73MPPGBCSEP}

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:44:38.160136Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ffc6b875d5d3059e5dbfdb1ef3045223e286b8471b5727ef2b3e8063e129ac4b

Aliases

arxiv: 1807.02502 · arxiv_version: 1807.02502v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1807.02502 · pith_short_12: 77DLQ5OV2MCZ · pith_short_16: 77DLQ5OV2MCZ4XN7 · pith_short_8: 77DLQ5OV

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/77DLQ5OV2MCZ4XN73MPPGBCSEP \
  | 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: ffc6b875d5d3059e5dbfdb1ef3045223e286b8471b5727ef2b3e8063e129ac4b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "958ea1125cfcf736def3e55d0ea8a057dbfacbca7abfefe7066b0c74561eedeb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "econ.EM"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2018-07-06T17:40:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "040477c84fd8ac3a01dedee5f4ed9c786cdec1ebdc3dbcce1fcf41646e43641d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1807.02502",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}